I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
F. Scott FitzgeraldOften I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMy latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMen get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.
F. Scott Fitzgerald