F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 September 1896
CitySaint Paul, MN
CountryUnited States of America
The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.
It's Never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
Cut out all these exclamation jokes. An explanation point is like laughing at your own joke. I'm going to delete you from my contacts if you keep sending solely emoji texts. You're a grown-ass man.
A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.
There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.
You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.
Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things...My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide
Happiness is the relief after extreme tension
Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.
All things come to him who mates.
...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.