Top 18 Quotes by Howard Fast

About Howard Fast

These are some quotes by American author Howard Fast Novelist, who lived between November 11, 1914 and March 12, 2003.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

Howard Fast

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.

Howard Fast

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.

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.

Howard Fast

To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.

To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.

Howard Fast

I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Howard Fast

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.

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.

Howard Fast

The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.

The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.

Howard Fast

A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.

A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.

Howard Fast

I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.

I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.

Howard Fast

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

Howard Fast

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