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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together. — Rodman Philbrick

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. — Nathaniel Philbrick

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life. — Rodman Philbrick

I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced. — Rodman Philbrick

...her hull might be compared to a fat man on the short end of a lopsided seesaw — Philbrick, Nathaniel

Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In — Nathaniel Philbrick

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

Books are like truth serum
if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real. — Rodman Philbrick

Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows; — Nathaniel Philbrick

Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb. — Nathaniel Philbrick

His heart was simply to big for his body. — Rodman Philbrick

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain. — Rodman Philbrick

It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you - even if you have to act like a pig. — Rodman Philbrick

What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all. — Rodman Philbrick

Remembering is a great invention of the mind. — Rodman Philbrick

There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child. — Rodman Philbrick

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.' — Nathaniel Philbrick

Good riddance to bad rubbish. — Rodman Philbrick

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain. — Rodman Philbrick

Whaling was the oil business of its day. — Nathaniel Philbrick

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

the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism. At — Nathaniel Philbrick

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain. — Rodman Philbrick

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare. — Nathaniel Philbrick

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like. — Rodman Philbrick

This mortal life decays apace How soon the bubble's broke Adam and all his numerous race Are Vanity and Smoke. — Nathaniel Philbrick

If half of the two thousand warriors fired ten arrows each during the engagement, that would have been a total of ten thousand arrows, — Nathaniel Philbrick

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember. — Rodman Philbrick

BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161 — Rodman Philbrick

I never had a brian till freak came along.. — Rodman Philbrick

I'm a big Stephen King fan. — Nathaniel Philbrick

I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater. — Rodman Philbrick

wishing thee a short and prosperous voyage, with a full portion of happiness we remain thy friends. In — Nathaniel Philbrick

What a goon, except it really is funny, me trying to sneeze a hot dog through my nose, and we're both laughing like total morons. — Rodman Philbrick

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing. — Rodman Philbrick

Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next.
- Samuel Reed — Rodman Philbrick

There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching — Rodman Philbrick

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie. — Rodman Philbrick

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book. — Nathaniel Philbrick

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

The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears. — Nathaniel Philbrick

fluidity of the sea, not the rigidity of irresistible law, characterizes human conduct, especially in the midst of a calamity. — Nathaniel Philbrick

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Faint heart never won fair lady," he wrote; "neither did it ever pursue and overtake an Indian village. — Nathaniel Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation. — Rodman Philbrick

Hope was all that stood between them and death. — Nathaniel Philbrick

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind. — Rodman Philbrick

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours — Rodman Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick

I've always known that I had the happy facility of making enemies of any one I ever knew, — Nathaniel Philbrick

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. — Rodman Philbrick

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do. — Rodman Philbrick

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing. — Nathaniel Philbrick

I'll watch anything, from action to art films. — Nathaniel Philbrick

at sea, things appear different. — Nathaniel Philbrick

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

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

a space of time is a great breeder of myths. — Nathaniel Philbrick

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes. — Nathaniel Philbrick

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am. — Rodman Philbrick

READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167 — Rodman Philbrick

Paul Revere Jr., with whom I had lunch at Spanky's Clam Shack in Hyannis, Massachusetts. — Nathaniel Philbrick

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you — Rodman Philbrick

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body' — Rodman Philbrick