F. Scott Fitzgerald

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A man’s social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A writer wastes nothing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A writer’s temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Actually that’s my secret – I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

F. Scott Fitzgerald