American literature Quote by Peter Orner

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 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

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

“John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.”

— Saul Bellow

If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World…

— Lauren Groff

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability…

— Carl Henegan

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

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

— Irwin Shaw

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished…

— Henry David Thoreau