About Quote by Sophie Hannah

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

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

The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can…

— Nora Roberts

“There is a class whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid ; Cervantes ; Sully's…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“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

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~Somerset Maugham”

— Dennis Ward

“There are good and great books on the Esquire list, though even Moby-Dick, which I love, reminds me that a book without women is…

— Rebecca Solnit

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened…

— Alessandra Stanley