F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography

Born asFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Occup.Author
FromUSA
BornSeptember 24, 1896
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
DiedDecember 21, 1940
Hollywood, California, USA
CauseHeart attack
Aged44 years
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer, short-story writer, and also film writer, best recognized for his novel "The Fantastic Gatsby". He was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Edward Fitzgerald, a business person, and Mary McQuillan, the daughter of an Irish immigrant.

Fitzgerald was a brilliant trainee, and at the age of 15, he registered at the Newman School, a respected Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey. He later went to Princeton University, where he came to be a member of the noted literary club, the Princeton Triangle Club. Nevertheless, academic life did not interest him, and he dropped out of university in 1917 to join the Army. After serving a short job in the military, he moved to New York City to pursue a creating career.

In 1919, Fitzgerald released his initial book, "This Side of Paradise", which became an instantaneous success as well as developed him as a popular writer. The book informed the story of Amory Blaine, a boy who struggled to discover his place on the planet. The book was based on Fitzgerald's very own experiences and drew heavily from his partnerships and also social life during university.

Fitzgerald's 2nd novel, "The Beautiful and Damned", was released in 1922 and was likewise a success, cementing his location as one of the leading voices of the "Lost Generation", a term created by author Gertrude Stein to define the disillusioned and pointless youth of the post-World War I age.

In 1925, Fitzgerald published what several consider his work of art, "The Great Gatsby". The novel told the heartbreaking tale of Jay Gatsby, a rich as well as enigmatic number that tossed luxurious parties in the hopes of winning back his lost love. The novel discovered styles of decadence, social course, and also the American Dream, and it has ended up being a standard of American literature.

However, regardless of his literary success, Fitzgerald fought with alcoholism and also economic issues throughout his life. He wed his spouse, Zelda Sayre, in 1920 as well as they had a rough partnership that was marked by constant battles and also adultery. Zelda was also diagnosed with mental disorder, as well as Fitzgerald spent substantial quantities of time and cash attempting to treat her problem.

In the late 1920s, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood to work as a film writer, however his career in the film market was ruined by alcohol addiction and imaginative distinctions with workshop execs. By the early 1930s, he was essentially broke as well as battling to sustain his other half and little girl.

Fitzgerald continued to write until his fatality in 1940, however his later jobs did not achieve the exact same crucial or commercial success as his earlier stories. He died at the age of 44 in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack. Despite his battles, Fitzgerald's legacy in American literary works is safe and secure, and his works remain to read and appreciated by generations of readers.

Our collection contains 50 quotes who is written / told by Scott Fitzgerald, under the main topic Forgiveness.

Related authors: Gertrude Stein (Author), Ernest Hemingway (Novelist), Zelda Fitzgerald (Writer), Charles Bukowski (Poet), Edward Fitzgerald (Poet), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Tobey Maguire (Actor)

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50 Famous quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Small: At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look at forty-five they are caves in which we hide
"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide"
Small: Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind"
Small: In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three oclock in the morning, day after day
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"
Small: When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they ma
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up"
Small: Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially
"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood"
Small: Scratch a Yale man with both hands and youll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing a
"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all"
Small: The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness"
Small: Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admit
"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero"
Small: Action is character
"Action is character"
Small: A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain
"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain"
Small: A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big
"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big"
Small: You dont write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say"
Small: You can stroke people with words
"You can stroke people with words"
Small: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolma
"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards"
Small: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath"
Small: After all, life hasnt much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in
"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others"
Small: Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder th
"Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores"
Small: Forgotten is forgiven
"Forgotten is forgiven"
Small: For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming"
Small: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you"
Small: Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like aches or wounds
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material"
Small: Everybodys youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness"
Small: Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues
"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues"
Small: Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline
"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you"
Small: Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke
"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke"
Small: The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violen
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter"
Small: The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best se
"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young"
Small: Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end
"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end"
Small: Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again
"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again"
Small: To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing
"To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing"
Small: There are no second acts in American lives
"There are no second acts in American lives"
Small: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function"
Small: My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, t
"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward"
Small: Whatll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
Small: Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as diffe
"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint"
Small: To write it, it took three months to conceive it three minutes to collect the data in it all my life
"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life"
Small: Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction"
Small: Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happine
"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle"
Small: Its not a slam at you when people are rude, its a slam at the people theyve met before
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before"
Small: It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well"
Small: It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude y
"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory"
Small: It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they wont save us any more than love
"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did"
Small: Ive been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library"
Small: Im a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that t
"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't"
Small: I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside
"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside"
Small: His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours
"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours"
Small: 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"
Small: Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art
"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art"
Small: Show me a hero and Ill write you a tragedy
"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy"
Small: The idea that to make a man work youve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.
"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. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way"