A Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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Nathaniel Philbrick
American - Author
Born: June 11, 1956

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

John Burnside

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Zig Ziglar

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.

Nathaniel Philbrick

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

Christopher Golden

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.

Nathaniel Philbrick

I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.

Chad Harbach

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

Chad Harbach

I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Nathaniel Philbrick

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Zig Ziglar

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

Garth Risk Hallberg

I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.

Richard Jenkins

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

Barry Unsworth

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

Mark Kurlansky

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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