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 was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not… — John Irving 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
“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
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
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and… — Leonardo DiCaprio 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
“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you… — John Green 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 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
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green 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 would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. — Andrew Davies 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
Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become… — David Ignatius 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
“...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
“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
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
“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
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
“[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
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
“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
“That's my Middle West - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
