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NOVELISTS > novelist > Herman Melville
Give me a...
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Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius's crater for an ink stand. . . . To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on a flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Source: Moby-Dick, ch. 104, 1851.
-- Herman Melville, (Aug 1 1819-1891), US novelist; He is noted for his stories of the sea, especially the classic Moby Dick, 1851.