Beautiful Quote by Joshua Slocum

I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain…

— Andy Garcia

“When the sky fell in When the hurricanes came for me I could finally crash again And that's how I became the sea.”

— Owl City

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

— Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille

“A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline during their life. We understand storms. We…

— Shannon L. Alder

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a…

— Simon Callow

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my…

— Hisham Matar

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed…

— Haruki Murakami

“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself…

— Joy Williams

“He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible;…

— James A. Michener