4 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes on Literature

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes on literature

49. He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.

51. 'O Russet Witch!'

95. He had one of the rarest qualities in all literature, and it's a great shame that the word for it has been thoroughly debased by the cosmetic racketeers, so that one is almost ashamed to use it to describe a real distinction. Nevertheless, the word is charm - charm as Keats would have used it. Who has it today? It's not a matter of pretty writing or clear style. It's a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartettes.

97. Fitzgerald was a better just plain writer than all of us put together. Just words writing.