Herman Melville Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.5186, Delphi Classics

• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Fleas

  Moby Dick ch. 104 (1851)

• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Literature

  Moby Dick ch. 104 (1851)

• Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Doors

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.630, Northwestern University Press

• It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

  Herman Melville

  Writing, Literature, Impossible

  Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.254, 谷月社

• Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

  Herman Melville

  Art, Writing, Giving

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.428

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