Herman-melville Quote by Ray Bradbury Download Open image ““Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.”” — Ray Bradbury ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Herman-melville Moby-dick Ouija Ouija board Shakespeare William-shakespeare
“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 Copy Share Image
“...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.” — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“I held a beautiful leather-bound copy of Moby Dick in one hand and my Moby dick in the other.” — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made replica of Shakespeare's dick.” — Eliza Gubbins Copy Share Image
“Heidegger claims, it seems fitting that Melville’s story about public exchanges facilitated by an anonymous agent becomes primarily preoccupied with how “confidence” and other… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis… — Bill Hirst Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art , the way Melville had,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“I can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick, the book… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a great deal, their shadows… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“...the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.” — Django Wylie Copy Share Image
“But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
