About Quote by Per Petterson

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

— Chad Harbach

When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man,…

— Nick Tosches

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“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

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 love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The…

— Spencer Boldman

“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

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“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

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood