No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Her voice is full of money.

Her voice is full of money.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy...

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy...

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own,...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own,...

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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

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

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as...

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as...

The victor belongs to the spoils.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people,...

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people,...

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he...

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he...

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of...

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of...

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front...

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front...