American literature Quote by John Green

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…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

— W. P. Kinsella

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…

— Jonathan Yardley

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

— Brad Anderson

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even…

— Maureen Corrigan

“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider…

— Stephen Fry

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in…

— Azar Nafisi

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous…

— Karin Slaughter

Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby…

— L.P. Hartley

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

— Wilbur Smith

Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly afforded by…

— Samuel Johnson

I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under…

— Leonardo DiCaprio