Inspiration Quote by Michael Oren

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

— Harold Bloom

“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and attended by…

— Michael Finkel

“Melville, by his own account, spent four months in the valley. He was well treated. He made friends with a girl called Fayaway, swam…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait…

— Jacob M. Appel

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“Though parted from all his soul held dear, and though often yearning for what lay beyond, still was he never positively and consciously miserable;…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which…

— Walter Lippmann

“Melville, in his relation to belief, was like the last guest who cannot leave the party; he was always returning to see if he…

— James Wood