Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The faces of most american women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? and the day after that, and the next thirty years? — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writers aren’t exactly people…. They’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Growing up is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What was the use of doing great thing if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do ? — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. — F. Scott Fitzgerald