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.An author…

— 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 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

“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that…

— Ron Houston

“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It…

— Hilary Mantel

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

— jorge luis borges

“In the end we're all writers, because each one of us has the power to write our own story.”

— M.P. Sharma

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein