Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald or known as F. Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He was born on September 24, 1896, in Minnesota, USA but grew up in New York. He went to Princeton but later on dropped out to join the US Army during World War I. This article will show you a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes but let’s get to know him a bit more first.
Fitzgerald always wanted to be a writer. In Princeton, he joined Princeton Triangle Club, Princeton Tiger, and Nassau Lit where he published stories and poems. After the war ended and he was discharged from the Army, Fitzgerald start writing advertising copy to make a living and gain connections in writing and publishing companies while working on his first book.
Fitzgerald was working on a book called “The Romantic Egotist” which was about his life in Princeton and love affairs. He struggled with alcoholism which affected his work. After sending his manuscript, no company would take them. He quit his advertising job and moved back with his parents. During this time, he went sober and poured himself to work. He revised his booked and is now called “This Side of Paradise”.
The book was accepted and soon published which sold 40,000 copies in the first year. Fitzgerald quickly became popular. With this, he resubmitted his previous books that were originally rejected such as “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”.
His most famous work includes “The Great Gatsby”, “Tender is the Night”, and “The Beautiful and Damned”.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD QUOTES AND CAPTIONS COMPILATION
Fitzgerald was a popular writer and his work are still famous today, many are considered classic. Check these wall art with F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
“Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You’ve got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter before the clear product emerges.”
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
“The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last – the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
“Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald died on December 20, 1940, from coronary arteriosclerosis at the age of 44. He has been sober for a year prior to his death.