“I may believe I'm not up to snuff, but Jill? Jill thinks I can date the Great Gatsby.” — Liza Palmer Copy Share Image
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green Copy Share Image
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer. — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It was never about the student-teacher dynamic,” he says. “It was only ever about you. All I ever wanted was the smart-mouthed… — Winter Renshaw Copy Share Image
“And then after that, I guess it just became habit that they didn’t. It seemed like people could revise who you were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I spent a great deal of my youth fantasizing about entertaining. In my early twenties I would spend hours poring over cookbooks… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“I should write a serious book on China. If I did that and put in a lot of subtext about love and… — Jesse James Freeman Copy Share Image
“But I know now that isn’t true; history is filled with fictional people. And even the epigraph Fitzgerald placed at the beginning… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
“Just handling this ocean of different books—new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten—it was literature as this giant… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“To Scottie June 12, 1940 p.451 ...don't take the things in which you can get 'A', for you can learn them yourself.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“[The Great Gatsby] is a tour de force of revision. So much so that critics, who rarely mention the edit of a… — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
“...What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
“Jacob laughed along with Chip in a fake, Great Gatsby, old-money sort of voice, obviously mocking my brother.” — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Like the rest of the planet, I'm absolutely dying to see Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby' and am thrilled that Leonardo DiCaprio… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and… — William McKeen Copy Share Image
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
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