What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Junior writers $300; Minor poets—$500 a week; Broken novelists—$850-1000; One play dramatists—$1500; Sucks—$2000. Wits—$2500.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I grew up thinking that writer and secretary were the same, except that a writer usually smelled of cocktails and came more… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To Frances Turnbull Nov. 9, 1938 p. 368 I've read the story carefully and, Frances, I'm afraid the price for doing professional… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He tries to go to life. So does every author except the very worst, but after all most of them live on… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling… — 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
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will… — 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
In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To Scottie July 18, 1940 p.454 The prose talent depends on other factors- assimilation of material and careful selection of it, or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.” — 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
