Theres a writer for you, he said. Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing. [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writersbecause if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answerstill it belittled him in my eyes. Writers arent people exactly. Or, if theyre any good, theyre a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. Its like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward tryingonly to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a 19th-century American writer. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Read more on Wikipedia →