'Zelda did not succeed as a writer because she was brainwashed into
believing that she was ill and that her art came out of her illness,
not her brilliance, so much so that she really became ill,' Kate
Zambreno wrote in her book
Heroines.
-- quoted in "
None
of it is your material" by Madeleine
Schwartz.
London Review of Books, Vol.41 No.8 (18 April 2019),
a review of
Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald.