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
hell unless work
In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.
runs sold untold widely
It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.
case frenzy matched
The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.
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Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
jobs dignity workers
The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
growing-up kids chance
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
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.
religion scripture doctrine
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.