F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Writing
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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.
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Nothing any good isn't hard.
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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
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If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.
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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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Character is plot, plot is character.
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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."
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Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
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Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
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Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.
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A writer wastes nothing.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
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Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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You can stroke people with words.
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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.
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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.
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