A Quote by Whit Stillman

I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

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Whit Stillman
American - Director
Born: January 25, 1952

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.

Edward Dahlberg

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

Gertrude Stein

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Ernest Hemingway

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

Madonna Ciccone

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

Rosamund Pike

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

Bob Dylan

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

Bridgit Mendler

I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

Ethan Canin

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

Steve Erickson

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Mason Cooley

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

David Nicholls

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

Alfred Kazin

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

Ron Carlson

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Azar Nafisi

'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.

Frank Delaney

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

Ronald Frame

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