The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked." Herman Melville” — Peter Wortsman Copy Share Image
Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved… — Michael Oren Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been… — Sam Anderson - NY Magazine Copy Share Image
“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The Pacific, greatest of oceans, has an area exceeding that of all dry land on the planet. Herman Melville called it "the… — David Stanley Copy Share Image
“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We hear more about dignity and “pensive luster” from cultures where the patina of age is highly valued, from the shutaku (soil… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“You can imagine Herman Melville coming to his publisher with his new manuscript. They ask him what it's about, and he says,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
![“The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world.” quote by Michael Oren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/michael-oren-38772_inspiration_the-middle-east-that-seductive-region-wh_1841986.jpg)
![“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this…” quote by Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/sarah-vowell-2016_american-author_it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melv_1754176.jpg)
