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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19970401
Author:Anonymous

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli with Judith S. Baughman.

"The wise writer . . . writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next and the school-masters of ever afterward," declared F. Scott Fitzgerald in a mock-interview with himself after his first novel was published, at age 24. This is a lively collection of observations about writers, writing, and the literary life culled from Fitzgerald's articles, book reviews, letters, and notebooks. Aspiring authors will take heart from his cheerful perseverance in the face of "one hundred and ...

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