“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“That is the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you are not lonely and isolated from… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I want it to smell of magnolias instead of peanuts and I want my shoes to crunch on the same gravel that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
