Conclusion Quote by Maureen Corrigan

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

— W. P. Kinsella

“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

“The Great Gatsby's my favorite book," he says. "F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated it to Zelda." "His wife?" I say. "Yeah. His crazy-ass wife who…

— Rick Yancey

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“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

“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the ‘creative temperament’—it was an extraordinary gift…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well, but her liking it makes me worry now that Nikki doesn't…

— Matthew Quick

“[The Great Gatsby] is a tour de force of revision. So much so that critics, who rarely mention the edit of a book, commented…

— Susan Bell

“You can imagine Herman Melville coming to his publisher with his new manuscript. They ask him what it's about, and he says, 'It's about…

— Anonymous

“Fitzgerald's work was almost entirely out of print when 'The Lost Weekend' was published in 1944—even 'Gatsby' seemed well on its way to being…

— Blake Bailey