I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.