"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
"Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it."
"He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)"
- Sheilah Graham
"The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap."
"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..."
"Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the ..."
- Maxwell Perkins
"Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings."
"The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, ‘Fascist,’ ‘Libe..."
"Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."
"I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write."