The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHaving once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNever confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDShe was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNo matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIntelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD