Tom Hiddleston credited as playing...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Greetings and salutations. You'll forgive me, I've been mixing grain and grappa. Now this is a writer, Gil, yes?
- Gil: Gil Pender.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gil Pender.
- Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway.
- Gil: Hemingway?
- Ernest Hemingway: You like my book.
- Gil: Liked? I loved, all your work.
- Ernest Hemingway: Yes, it was a good book because it was an honest book, and that's what war does to men. And there's nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud unless you die gracefully, and then it's not only noble but brave.
- Zelda Fitzgerald: Did you read my story? What'd you think?
- Ernest Hemingway: There was some fine writing in it, but it was unfulfilled.
- Zelda Fitzgerald: I might have known you'd hate it.
- Ernest Hemingway: [about Zelda] She'll drive you crazy, this woman.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: She's exciting and she has talent.
- Ernest Hemingway: This month it's writing, last month it was something else. You're a writer, you need time to write, not all this fooling around. She's wasting you because she's really a competitor. Don't you agree?
- Gil: Me?
- Ernest Hemingway: Speak up for chrissake. I am asking, do you think my friend is making a tragic mistake?
- Gil: I actually don't know the Fitzgeralds that well.
- Ernest Hemingway: You're a writer. You make observations. You were with them all night.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Can we not discuss my personal life in public?
- Ernest Hemingway: She's jealous of his gift and it's a fine gift, it's rare. You like his work? You can speak freely.
- Zelda Fitzgerald: I know, I could be one of the great writers of musical lyrics, not that I can write melodies and I try. And then I hear the songs he writes and I realize I'll never write a great lyric and my real talent lies in drinking.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Sure does