“It takes a genius to whine appealingly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Letter to Maxwell Perkins, c. 1924, cited in A Life in Letters

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 – 1940

American novelist, author of "The Great Gatsby".

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“There are no second acts in American lives.”

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”