Melville Quotes

Melville Quote of the day

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

I would prefer not to.

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

I'm able to be a normal mom for the most part. I'm in [clothing store] Brandy Melville like all the other moms.

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

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

And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

We are the pioneers of the world

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.