F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Stories Quotes, Elements Quotes

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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