Howard Fast
Howard Fast
Howard Melvin Fastwas an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1914
CountryUnited States of America
critics failed knows religion watches writers
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
hell unless work
In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.
religion scripture doctrine
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
buddhist catholic promise
And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.
arrogance nerves yiddish
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
people suffering age
Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
growing-up kids chance
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
distance mountain stills
A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
jobs dignity workers
The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
mother men
I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
against bought care cause civil convent converted group hospital people refugees republican run spanish took war
After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse.
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.