There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
