Excerpt

"It seemed a romantic business to be a successful literary man - you were not ever going to be as famous as a movie star but what you had was probably longer-lived; you were never going to have the power of a man of strong political or religious convictions but you were certainly more independent. Of course within the practice of your trade you were forever unsatisfied - but I, for one, would not have chosen any other."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald in "The Crack-Up"