Writing Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“It was funny about writing. It was like flying or driving or playing an instrument. When you were doing it like you were supposed…

— Jennifer Niven

“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in the other…

— Jay McInerney

“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“I read a lot of travel books before I came here. Fantasised what it would be like. I read Scott’s journal. Those last entries…

— Adam Baker

“All day he had gone up to people, fallen into conversation with them, listened to their troubles, and then quietly uttered those three magic…

— Douglas Adams

“I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Yet every great storyteller knows it’s the fine art of taking me by the hand and showing me that has the most effect on…

— Rene Gutteridge

“I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real world, the…

— Ian McEwan

Cameron Rogers writes like a magician.

— K. J. Bishop

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse