Truman Capote was the original screenwriter for the 1974 film. In his draft, Nick was a homosexual and Jordan Baker a vindictive lesbian - he was fired and his screenplay was never filmed. (x)
“Work is the only device I know of. Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Even Joyce, our most extreme disregarder, was a superb craftsman; he could write Ulysses because he could write Dubliners. Too many writers seem to consider the writing of short stories as a kind of finger exercise. Well, in such cases, it is certainly only their fingers they are exercising.” ”
“There’s lots of things you don’t know. All kinds of strange things … mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.”
