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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.

"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
Running, Writing, Heaven
"This Side of Paradise". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920.

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Struggle, Writing, Overwhelming Urge
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.2993, e-artnow

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jobs, Writing, Creating

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Thinking, Leaving
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.140, e-artnow

A writer wastes nothing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing, Waste

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