Source: A Short Autobiography
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Famous F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.”
Source: A Short Autobiography
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“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.”
“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
Source: Fitzgerald: The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
Source: A Life in Letters
“Nothing any good isn't hard.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“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.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“You can stroke people with words.”
Source: The Crack-up