“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines,… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting.… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
“He cared only about people; he was scarcely conscious of places except for their weather, until they had been invested with color… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist. — Elle Varner Copy Share Image
“I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of… — Bridie Clark Copy Share Image
“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill… — Scott Donaldson Copy Share Image
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the surface-level knowledge about Zelda… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
