“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”
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Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1900–1948Related quotes
“I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts…”
As quoted in The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros (2006) by Mark Tier, p. 219
Context: I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts... I would value it much more highly than any business success if I could contribute to an understanding of the world in which we live or, better yet, if I could help to preserve the economic and political system that has allowed me to flourish as a participant.
“I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Foma Gordeyev (1899) [also translated as The Man Who Was Afraid; the English music group Led Zeppelin would later name their record label "Swan Song".
Context: There's a little book I'm thinking of writing — "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Journal entry in Audubon and His Journals (1897), edited by Maria R. Audubon, Vol. I, "The European Journals 1826 - 1829", p. 184