Francis Scott Fitzgerald really read culture pretty damn clearly. It was he who understood that artistic achievement, really imaginative work, goes where the money is. Where people can afford to buy books and paintings. He linked money - not always… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button,… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“I am wild, if you like; but I stayed in my burrow a long, long time, - nibbling your straws and snapping at your… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror. — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
Francis Scott Fitzgerald really read culture pretty damn clearly. It was he who understood that artistic achievement, really imaginative work, goes where the money… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
