F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world was to be a new place, and we were to be new people.

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever quite know what you're doing, can you?

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want to repeat my experience.

The golden rhythm of the Charleston.

He was an original, a man who had invented himself.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

I had a dream that my life was a bridge, and I was walking across it, and it was crumbling behind me.

The idea of a writer is to get his words on paper, not to talk about them.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

The best way to get to know yourself is to get to know other people.

I am not a great man, but I am a man who has known great things.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

You don't have to be a genius to be a writer. You just have to be able to write.

I write for the same reason I breathe—because if I didn't, I would die.

The only way to write is to write. There's no other way.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I'm going to do something.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

It was a time of miracles, it was a time of art, it was a time of excess, and it was a time of satire.

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

I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.