All F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Quotes about “Writing”

“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”
“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”
“You can stroke people with words.”
“Nothing any good isn't hard.”
“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.”
“Writers arenâ€™t people exactly. Or, if theyâ€™re any good, theyâ€™re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.”
“The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.”
“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and Iâ€™ll tell you a story.”
“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.”
“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.”
“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
“A writer wastes nothing.”

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