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- 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
- Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey
- Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split… — Maurice Sendak
- Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick
- Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — 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… — D. H. Lawrence