All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Life
- 1896-1940
- Occupations
- writer, novelist, short story writer
- Notable works
- The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night
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At the worst I accepted Hollywood with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never again romp like the mind of God.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 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 Fitzgerald
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
F. Scott Fitzgerald