F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes about Literature
The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.834, e-artnow
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Unabridged): A Tale of the Jazz Age by the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, e-artnow
Letter to Booksellers' Convention, Apr. 1920
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.147, Cambridge University Press
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.61, e-artnow
The Beautiful and Damned epigraph (1922)
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3286, e-artnow
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)
