“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 have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer. — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
I like to describe 'Yellowstone' is 'The Great Gatsby' on the largest ranch in Montana. Then it's really a study of the… — Taylor Sheridan 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
One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written. — Danielle de Niese 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
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
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris 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
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
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
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how… — Azar Nafisi 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
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
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,'… — Karin Slaughter 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“The Great Gatsby's my favorite book," he says. "F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated it to Zelda." "His wife?" I say. "Yeah. His crazy-ass… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well, but her liking it makes me worry now that… — Matthew Quick 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
“[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
“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
“...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
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come… — Henry Rollins 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
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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