Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cites

• Thomas Parke D’Invilliers (1)
  • IN: The Great Gatsby (1925) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!”
    FROM: NULL, (1925), Fictional, NULL
• Rupert Brooke (1)
  • IN: This Side of Paradise (1920) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...Well this side of Paradise!... There's little comfort in the wise.
    FROM: Tiare Tahiti, (1914), Poem, UK
• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: This Side of Paradise (1920) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
    FROM: Lady Windermere's Fan, (1893), Play, Ireland

Cited by

• Jessica Verday (1)
  • IN: The Beautiful and The Damned (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
    FROM: Notebook E, (1945), Book, US
• Amanda Brookfield (1)
  • IN: The Love Child (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Alan Brennert (1)
  • IN: Palisades Park (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Across the water were the Palisades, crowned by the ugly framework of the amusement park -- yet soon it would be dusk and those same iron cobwebs would be a glory against the heavens, an enchanted palace set over the smooth radiance of a tropical canal
    FROM: The Beautiful and Damned, (1922), Novel, US
• C.J Box (1)
  • IN: In Plain Sight (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
    FROM: Babylon Revisited, (1931), Short story, US
• Hazel Gaynor (1)
  • IN: The Girl from the Savoy (2016) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: ...men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• David Joy (1)
  • IN: The Weight of This World (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Gilly MacMillan (1)
  • IN: What She Knew (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day.
    FROM: The Crack Up, (1936), Novel, US
• Laura Moriarty (1)
  • IN: The Chaperone (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy -- it increased her value in his eyes.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• O' Nan, Stewart (1)
  • IN: West of Sweet (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are no second acts in American lives.
    FROM: Last notes on The Last Tycoon, (1941), [NA], US
• Stewart O' Nan (3)
  • IN: West of Sweet (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing was impossible -- everything was just beginning.
    FROM: Crazy Sunday, (1932), Short Story, US
  • IN: West of Sunset (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing was impossible -- everything was just beginning.
    FROM: Crazy Sunday, (1932), Short Story, US
• Tatiana de Rosnay (1)
  • IN: Other Story (2013) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you have something to say.
    FROM: The Crack-Up, (1945), Book, US
• Paul Vidich (1)
  • IN: The Good Assassin (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Lee Smith (1)
  • IN: Guests on Earth (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
    FROM: letter to daughter, Scottie, (1940), Letter, US
• Suzanne Rindell (1)
  • IN: Three-Martini Lunch (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nobody ever became a writer by just wanting to be one.
    FROM: To daughter, (1936), Letter, US
• Sharon Pomerantz (1)
  • IN: Rich Boy (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!" She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. "It's impossible to be both together," said John grimly. "People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two."
    FROM: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, (1922), Novel, US
• Jane Mendelsohn (1)
  • IN: Burning Down the House (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light, which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires. Turning a corner, I saw that it was Gatsby's house, lit from tower to cellar.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Morgan McCarthy (1)
  • IN: The Other Half of Me (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Alan Glynn (2)
  • IN: Limitless (2001) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: He had come a long way to this blue law, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
  • IN: The Dark Fields (2001) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Fiction , Irish
    EPIGRAPH: He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Stuart Dyber (1)
  • IN: Ecstatic Cahoots (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." ... First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in estatic cahoots.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Zoey Dean (1)
  • IN: How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The rich are very different from you and me.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• John Niven (1)
  • IN: No Good Deed (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's good luck.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Benedict Wells (1)
  • IN: The End of Loneliness (2016) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
    FROM: The Crack-Up "Note-Books", (1945), Book, US
• Niccolò Ammaniti (1)
  • IN: Me and You (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning.
    FROM: The Crack Up', (1945), Book, US
• Anna Lee Huber (1)
  • IN: This Side of Murder (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
    FROM: This Side of Paradise, (1920), Novel, US
• Martha Grimes (1)
  • IN: The Horse You Came In On (1993) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Civilized, and gay, and rotted, and polite.
    FROM: on Baltimore, (1935), Letter, US
• Patti Callahan Henry (1)
  • IN: The Bookshop at Water's End (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Richard Russo (1)
  • IN: Straight Man (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They're nice to have. A dog.
    FROM: The Great Gatsby, (1925), Novel, US
• Robyn Schneider (1)
  • IN: The Beginning of Everything (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self respect and it's these things I'd believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicious that she wasn't all that she should be.... I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US