F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

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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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

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The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

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Grammar is the analysis of language.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter

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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Writing is the great invention of the world.

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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

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Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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