Bootstraps Quote by Leonardo DiCaprio

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

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

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

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, the finest novel ever written.

— W. P. Kinsella

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

“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

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

— Robert Harris

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

— Andrew Davies

Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large…

— James T. Farrell

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…

— Sarah Vowell

I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out…

— Gail Collins