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
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?