Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'
Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.
One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.
The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.
The '20s are a very interesting period to me.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.
The Great Gatsby Curve
'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.
A lot of my designs are inspired by the 1930s, when people were fabulous at dressing up. Then it just all kind of fell away.
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
I used to love the '20s.
There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.
I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.
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.
