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
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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.
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I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
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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.
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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.
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I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
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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.
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The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.
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The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
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My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
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Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.
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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.
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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.
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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.