Melville Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

• Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry… — Susan Howe
• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern… — Edward Abbey
• Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and… — Maurice Sendak
• Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
• Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. — Edward Dahlberg
• As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease. — Nathaniel Philbrick
• The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom
• Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart… — D. H. Lawrence
• You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These… — Maurice Sendak
• The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe… — Jorge Luis Borges
• Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville. — Daniel Handler
• Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on… — Ray Bradbury
• IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis… — Vladimir Nabokov
• Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when… — Maurice Sendak
• In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist… — John Irving
• What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me… — Pico Iyer
• Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination… — Carl Clinton Van Doren

Who Wrote These Melville Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 18 Melville Quotes as follows:

• 3 Melville Quotes by Maurice Sendak
• 1 Melville Quote by Susan Howe
• 1 Melville Quote by Edward Abbey
• 1 Melville Quote by Michael Swanwick
• 1 Melville Quote by Edward Dahlberg
• 1 Melville Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick
• 1 Melville Quote by Harold Bloom
• 1 Melville Quote by D. H. Lawrence
• 1 Melville Quote by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 Melville Quote by Daniel Handler
• 1 Melville Quote by Ray Bradbury
• 1 Melville Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Melville Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Melville Quote by John Irving
• 1 Melville Quote by Pico Iyer
• 1 Melville Quote by Carl Clinton Van Doren