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Advice
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
-Gene Fowler
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Authors & Writing
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Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
-Gene Fowler
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
-Gene Fowler
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Conflict
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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
-Gene Fowler
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Dissent
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
-Gene Fowler
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Media
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News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
-Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961
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Psychiatry
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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
-Gene Fowler
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Reading
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
-Gene Fowler
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Books by and about Gene Fowler