F. Scott Fitzgerald

That is the story of my life. I always get to the station when the train is pulling out.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

The very rich are different from you and me.

I’m not a great man but I’m a great writer.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea.

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.

I write my books for the same reason I eat apples – because I like them.

I wonder what you would have done, if you had not been a writer.

You are the one who is the master of your destiny. No one can stop you from doing what you want to do.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but—well, I want to go places and see people. I want to find out what’s at the end of the world.

I left Gilda's party, and it was raining, and I had no coat. I was wearing a dinner jacket, and I was soaked. I walked home, and I was singing.

The greatest mistake in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

You don't just happen to write a novel. It's a conscious decision, an act of will.

I wish I could have found another way to live, but I couldn't. I had to write.

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I lived a full life.'

I'm not interested in being a great man, but I am interested in being a man who is true to himself.