“ Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ [Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves. Malcolm Lowry
“ Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single mo… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality....And as for the sheer writing, it's astonishing. [… Maxwell Perkins
