“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Everybody talked about Freud when I lived in New Orleans, but I have never read him. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if… — William Faulkner 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
When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Moby Dick is my favorite book —I’ve been rereading it every year since I was sixteen. ‘Call me Ishmael’ is the greatest… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Those who can think up feminism or structuralism; those who can't apply such insights to "Moby Dick" or "The Cat in the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.” — Kelly Moran Copy Share Image
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“-¿Tienes idea de lo que he pasado? -Cuéntamelo. -Casi me hace trizas un doctor loco. Un puñado de asquerosos piratas me hicieron… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there. — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I held a beautiful leather-bound copy of Moby Dick in one hand and my Moby dick in the other.” — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Why do anything-- why wash my hair, why read Moby Dick, why fall in love, why sit through six hours of Nicholas… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
“But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
