Books Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.”

— Petra Hermans

“You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.”

— M. Kirin

“Critics write words but they don't write the future.”

— Jon Gordon

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or…

— Laura Z. Hobson

“No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.”

— Alamvusha

“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow