“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle… — 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
You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there… — 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
