F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes on Creativity

3 quotes

  1. Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

  2. You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

  3. His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

    #96 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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