Fingers Quote by John Updike

“Seven men inhabit the raft. The pessimist, for whom the good things of life are no more than lures to prolong suffering; the egocentric,…

— John Fowles

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in…

— Edith Wharton

“There were no romantic ships passing in the night. It was more like dinghies in the dark: Awkward, slow and hard to handle, quickly…

— Candace Vianna

“Carrying my boat between bodies of water? I’m not so good with metaphors, dear,” Vivian says. “What’s it supposed to mean?” “Well,” Molly says,…

— Christina Baker Kline

“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it,…

— Cecelia Ahern

“Aboard a boat of leaves I float, allowing new stories to unfold. Of cresting and falling winds, streaking words across the sky. [A Writer’s…

— Susan L. Marshall

“The golden anchor beckons, the blue sail rises Like the wing of a dream unfolding to a new day. Let us depart, my muse!…

— Delmira Agustini

“In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard…

— David Foster Wallace

O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look…

— Dante Alighieri

“…she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and robbed of colour, she saw things truly…Nothing…

— Virginia Woolf

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

“Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting for a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich