Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'
...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.
I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)
I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and tu...
But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America.
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed ...
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
