Books Quote by Herman Melville

In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of…

— Dana Gioia

Literature gives us models of living human beings who may not agree with us and even be our enemies. D. H. Lawrence said that…

— John Updike

If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You…

— Jo Walton

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

— Anonymous

“The almanac cut her and her babies adrift; she and they fell into the vast ocean of ordinary people, whose births and deaths and…

— Diane Setterfield

The heart and the almanac never agree about time.

— Grace King

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

— Izaak Walton

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what…

— Ethel Merman

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of…

— Ben Schott

I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.

— Amitava Kumar

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

— James Russell Lowell

“...though weather is important while it happens it seems to me to be pretty dull to look back on. You can take descriptions of…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort…

— Dave Matthews

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and…

— Herman Melville

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment…

— Herman Melville