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
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
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
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and… — Sarah Churchwell 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
“I may believe I'm not up to snuff, but Jill? Jill thinks I can date the Great Gatsby.” — Liza Palmer Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“What are you doing with all these books?" I asked, stepping towards a tall stack on the floor. I ran my fingers… — Anna Carey Copy Share Image
Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses. — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
The Romanoffs are like the other side of 'The Great Gatsby.' 'Gatsby' is about the people who don't have the history but… — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
“I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Who is he anyhow, an actor?" "No." "A dentist?" "...No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Here are more lines from The Great Gatsby. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the… — Sigrid Nunez 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
