F. Scott Fitzgerald On How To Write Fiction

I fell in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writing when I first read the first lines of The Great Gatsby.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

‘Whenever you feel critizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

Although F. Scott Fitzgerald has been portrayed as a natural-born writer, he saw himself in a different light.What little I’ve acc...