Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere… — 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
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you… — 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
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I doubt if, after all, I’ll ever write anything again worth putting in print.” — 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
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — 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
“The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual,… — 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
