Great Gatsby Quotes

20 Great Gatsby quotes by 20 unique authors

The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me. — Joel Edgerton
Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is… — Leslie Poles Hartley
Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but… — Jonathan Yardley
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be… — Azar Nafisi
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability… — Tom Perrotta
I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer. — Dree Hemingway
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then… — Garrett Hedlund
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted… — Leonardo DiCaprio
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd… — Francis Ford Coppola
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great… — Chuck Palahniuk
The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....] — J D Salinger
In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the… — Sarah Vowell
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in… — Stephen Chbosky
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. — Rob Sheffield
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a… — Ernest Hemingway
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby… — Michael Cunningham

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