Gene Fowler
Overview
Gene Fowler (March 8, 1890 – July 2, 1960) was an American journalist, author and dramatist.

He was born in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

. When his mother remarried, young Gene took his stepfather's name to become Gene Fowler. Fowler's career had a false start in taxidermy, which he later claimed permanently gave him a distaste for red meat. After a year at the University of Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...

, he took a job with The Denver Post
The Denver Post
-Ownership:The Post is the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc., founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder. MediaNews is today one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, publisher of 61 daily newspapers and more than 120 non-daily publications in 13 states. MediaNews...

. His assignments included an interview with frontiersman and Wild West Show promoter Buffalo Bill Cody
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a United States soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory , in LeClaire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US...

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Quotations

Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

Of his writing.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

sometimes attributed to Douglas Adams.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

A man should love two cities, its own and San Francisco.

 
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