F. Scott Fitzgerald

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

An unread book is just a block of paper.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Character is plot, plot is character.

F. Scott Fitzgerald