Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIf you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. Scott Fitzgerald