Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.
F. Scott Fitzgerald