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“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Is your generation so soft that they talk of going to pieces if life doesn't always present itself in terms of beautiful, easy decisions?”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The amount of meaning you get into a sentence, the dimensions and intensity of the impression you make a paragraph carry, are most extraordinary.... You once told me you were not a natural writer—my God! You have plainly mastered the craft, of course; but you needed far more than craftsmanship for this. [about The Great Gatsby]”
― Maxwell Perkins

“Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality....And as for the sheer writing, it's astonishing. [About The Great Gatsby]”
― Maxwell Perkins

“Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]”
― Maxwell Perkins, Dear Scott/Dear Max

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs to ideologies, he turns into a mouthpiece. He must hang on to his identity for dear life. In the end he must rely on his own judgment. It’s the only way to survive as a writer and an artist.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When a United States Senator after his election has to look up the principles of Marxism by which one-sixth of the world is governed it shows he's a pretty inadequate defender of his own system.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Fitzgerald focused on you---even riveted on you---and if there was one thing you were sure of, it was that whatever you happened to be talking about was the most important matter in the world. A further seduction was his smile---quick, tight, and very appealing. It was not so much a smile as a flash of confidence in you and your mortal possiblities.”
― Andrew Turnbull, Scott Fitzgerald

“Fitzgerald's attachment to those who had shared his time and experience here on earth, his sense of identity with them, his caring---that is perhaps the final burden and beauty of these letters.”
― Andrew Turnbull, The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It [The Great Gatsby] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years....it seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.”
― T. S. Eliot

“Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
― Sheilah Graham, College of One

“Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott/Dear Max

“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes—so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“An ardent anti-Nazi, he was excited by the outbreak of World War II---which he had been predicting---and followed the war news closely. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]”
― Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“[Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves.”
― Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place