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Writing Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
- Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
- You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might…
- If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed…
- Nothing any good isn't hard.
- I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
- The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping…
- Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
- Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
- Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
- All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
- To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
- An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
- You can stroke people with words.
- Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
- Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
- Character is plot, plot is character.
- I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
- 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.
- If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
- What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not…
- What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
- Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial…
- Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so…
- A writer wastes nothing.
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