Quote by Haruki Murakami

“I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it go would”

— Karen White

“In other words Yates had remembered the lesson of his first great master, Fitzgerald—namely, that people rarely say what they mean, and good dialogue…

— Blake Bailey

“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty”

— Ring Lardner

“Up to then there had been something of a gentleman’s agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the…

— David Halberstam

“Moreover, he objected, “I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don’t like to…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to…

— Walter Isaacson

“To pay attention to someone can be a political act.”

— Aliza Nisenbaum

“The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And…

— Clifford D. Simak

“The 1930s, Kennedy said, 'taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.”

— John F. Kennedy

“(John Bold said): If an action is the right one, personal feelings must not be allowed to interfere. Of course I greatly like Mr…

— Anthony Trollope