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

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me...

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

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...

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes...

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes...

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have...

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have...

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.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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...

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...

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Forgotten is forgiven.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

You have to have a positive strategy to make more partners and fewer terrorists. Harry...

You have to have a positive strategy to make more partners and fewer terrorists. Harry...

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...