F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

- F Scott Fitzgerald

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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. - F Scott Fitzgerald

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. - F Scott Fitzgerald