Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The…

“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”

— John Grisham

“Fitzgerald's work was almost entirely out of print when 'The Lost Weekend' was published in 1944—even 'Gatsby' seemed well on its way to being…

— Blake Bailey

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I've studied a lot of different players throughout the years. One of the ones that I think I've pulled a lot of his stuff…

— Cooper Kupp

“no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ultimately, I'd say a lot of my vocal influences are jazz-based, people like Ella Fitzgerald, or Fred Astaire.

— Bill Ward

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

— Rosamund Pike

I definitely grew up to Nina Simone and a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. And I loved Amy Winehouse. I loved that sort of soulful…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the…

— Julia Glass

Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to…

— John Aldridge

My favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald.

— Brian J. Smith

“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.

— Estelle

“We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald