Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"A writer can spin on about his adventures after thirty, after forty, after fifty, but the criteria by which these adventures are weighed and valued are irrevocably settled at the age of twenty-five."

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

"My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."

"Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager."

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

"You don't write because you want to say something' you write because you've got something to say."