Lots of It'".) " 'Mr. Marcus,' he said so sincerely that his voice trembled, 'I wouldn't be surprised if Orson Welles is the biggest menace that's come to Hollywood for years. He gets a hundred and fifty grand a picture and I wouldn't be surprised if he was so radical that you had to have all new equipment and start all over again like you did with sound in 1928.' " (From "Pat Hobby and Orson Welles".) "Most writers look like writers whether they want to or not. It is hard to say why - for they model their exteriors whimsically on Wall Street brokers, cattle kings or English explorers - but they all turn out looking like writers, as definitely typed as 'The Public' or 'The Profiteers' in the cartoons." (From "Pat Hobby, Putative Father".) "Pat was at 'the end of his resources' - though this term is too ominous to describe a fairly usual condition in his life. He was an old timer in pictures; he had once known sumptuous living, but for the past ten years jobs had been hard to hold - harder to hold than glasses." (From "No Harm Trying".) Reviews Essays "Introduction by Arnold Gingrich" in The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. References and notes External links Esquire magazine Cover Gallery Online text of The Complete Pat Hobby Stories at Project Gutenberg Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius at the Internet Movie Database Three short radio scripts from Pat Hobby stories at California Legacy Project. 1962 short story collections Short story collections by F. Scott Fitzgerald Los Angeles in fiction American short story collections Hollywood novels