Quotes

For quotes from members of the Lost Generation, their works, and their letters, see the pages below:

From individuals

• Margaret Anderson quotes
• Sherwood Anderson quotes
• Djuna Barnes quotes
• Sylvia Beach quotes
• Kay Boyle quotes
• Louis Bromfield quotes
• Rupert Brooke quotes
• Van Wyck Brooks quotes
• Kenneth Burke quotes
• Morley Callaghan quotes
• E. E. Cummings quotes
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline quotes
• Malcolm Cowley quotes
• Hart Crane quotes
• Harry Crosby quotes
• John Dos Passos quotes
• T. S. Eliot quotes
• William Faulkner quotes
• Edna Ferber quotes
• F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes
• Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
• Janet Flanner quotes
• Dashiell Hammett quotes
• Ernest Hemingway quotes
• Aldous Huxley quotes
• Eugene Jolas quotes
• James Joyce quotes
• Ring Lardner quotes
• Sinclair Lewis quotes
• Archibald MacLeish quotes
• H.L. Mencken quotes
• Edna St. Vincent Millay quotes
• Henry Miller quotes
• George Orwell quotes
• Wilfred Owen quotes
• Dorothy Parker quotes
• Maxwell Perkins quotes
• Ezra Pound quotes
• Erich Maria Remarque quotes
• Isaac Rosenberg quotes
• Gilbert Seldes quotes
• Olaf Stapledon quotes
• Gertrude Stein quotes
• John Steinbeck quotes
• Edward Thomas quotes
• Carl Van Vechten quotes
• Glenway Wescott quotes
• Thomas Wolfe quotes
• Virginia Woolf quotes
• Thornton Wilder quotes
• Edmund Wilson quotes

From letters

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his daughter
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Peale Bishop
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Shane Leslie
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Christian Gauss
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Harold Ober
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cecilia Taylor
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gerald and Sara Murphy
  • Quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Margaret Turnbull
  • Quotes from the miscellaneous letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald

From novels and story collections

• John Dos Passos:
  • Manhattan Transfer quotes (1925)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald:
  • This Side of Paradise quotes (1920)
• Ernest Hemingway:
  • The Garden of Eden quotes (1986)
• Aldous Huxley:
  • Crome Yellow quotes (1921)
• Henry Miller
  • Black Spring quotes (1936)

From nonfiction

• Malcolm Cowley:
  • Exiles Return quotes (1934)