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All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
What you're telling yourself about yourself is having a powerful effect on your life and your health.
— Michelle Brown
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -"
"Greenwich Village?"
"Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink. — F Scott Fitzgerald
You used to be entertaining before you started to write.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
— Eugenio Maria De Hostos
You smell like a litter box.
— Jennifer Hotes
