Convinced Quote by Jonathan Yardley

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

— W. P. Kinsella

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

— Danielle de Niese

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

I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even…

— Susan Choi

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

'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the…

— Frank Delaney

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

“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never get tired…

— Haruki Murakami

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

— Dree Hemingway

“Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Just handling this ocean of different books—new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten—it was literature as this giant mosaic of…

— Jonathan Lethem

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

— Robert Littell