American Quote by Nick Tosches

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

— Chad Harbach

“It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book?”

— Richard Linklater

“When we think of the masterpieces that nobody praised and nobody read, back there in the past, we feel an impatient superiority to the…

— Randall Jarrell

“My favorite book is God-Shaped Hole. It’s not a classic. It’s better than a classic. It’s a modern-day tragedy. I’ve never read Moby-Dick but…

— Colleen Hoover

“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity — was…

— Herman Melville

I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British…

— Per Petterson

“Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important…

— Sophie Hannah

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

— Henry Rollins

“Moby Dick is my favorite book —I’ve been rereading it every year since I was sixteen. ‘Call me Ishmael’ is the greatest first line…

— Douglas Preston

“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

“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage,"…

— Kurt Vonnegut