F-scott-fitzgerald Quote by Ring Lardner Download Open image ““Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty”” — Ring Lardner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare F-scott-fitzgerald Zelda-fitzgerald
“I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through… — Scott Donaldson Copy Share Image
“In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were trapped, defaults,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I put some nice thick socks and my Alpine slippers and then curled up in a chair by the fire to read The Beautiful and Damned. 'Fitzgerald's a poet', Shakespear had said when she recommended it, […]. The writing was exquisite, I had to admit, but it was making me sad to read about Gloria and Anthony. They talked prettily… — Paula McLain Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in the other… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where you got the idea that the quality of a novel should be judged by the likability of its characters, but let me submit to you that Daisy Buchanan doesn’t have to be likable to be interesting… That’s the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels. You get to see yourself as others see you, and you… — John Green Copy Share
“Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do. — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it. — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This… — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some… — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
“Deepest of all in her personality was the golden radiance that she diffused around her. As an open fire in a dark room throws… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He seduces her because she is slipping away - she lets herself be seduced because of overwhelming admiration. Once settled, it is sensual, breathless,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This was Scott. This is Scott, always looking back to try to figure out how to go forward, where happiness and prosperity must surely… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
“But Amory, being on the spot, leaned over quickly and kissed Myra’s cheek. He had never kissed a girl before, and he tasted his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“What must love itself in its fullness, its perfection be. He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal, undesirous medley… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Daddy's girl. Was it a 'itty-bitty bravekins and did it suffer? Oooooo-tweet, de tweetest thing, wasn't she dest too tweet? Before her tiny fist… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
