tradition n. the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation,or the fact of being passed on in this way
Heywood Broun: What are your plans now?
F.Scott Fitzgerald: I’ll be darned if I know. The scope and the depth and breadth of my writings lie in the laps of the gods. If knowledge comes naturally, through interest, as Shaw learned his political economy or as Wells devoured modern science – why, that’ll be slick. On study itself – that is, in ‘reading you’ a subject – I haven’t anthill moving faith. Knowledge must cry out to be known – cry out that only I can know it, and then I’ll swim in to satiety.
Heywood Broun: Do you expect to be part of the great literary tradition?
F. Scott Fitzgerald: There’s no great literary tradition. There’s only the tradition of the eventual death of every literary tradition.
