Author: Herman Wouk

Cites

• Bible (3)
  • IN: War and Remembrance (1978) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: Write this for a rememberance in a book... That the LORD has a war with Amalek from generation to generation
    FROM: Exodus 17, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Will to Live On, This is our Heritage (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Teach these things diligently to your children.
    FROM: Deuteronomy 6:7, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Glory (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the Lord returned us to Zion, We were like dreamers. Then our mouths were filled with laughter, and our tongues with song...
    FROM: Psalm 126:1, 2, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Herman Wouk (2)
  • IN: The Lawgiver (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A scuffed file in my desk drawer labeled The Lawgiver contains a few typed yellow pages turning brown with age. When I was writing The Caine Mutiny, it occurred to me that there was no greater theme for a novel, if I could rise to it, than the life of Moses. The file dates to that time. The years have rolled over me. I have not quailed at large tasks. World War Two and the wars of Israel were sizable challenges, but I took them on. The Lawgiver remains unwritten. I have never found the way to do it. Other ideas for books I have set aside (no time, no time!), but I still hope against hope for a bolt of lightning, which will yet inspire me to pen my own picture of Maysheh Rabbenu, the Rav of mankind.
    FROM: The Will to Live On, (2000), Book, US
  • IN: The Will to Live On, This is our Heritage (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now my hand slows. The task needed an Ezra, and it found only this poor pen. I have done the best I could to tell my brothers that our law of Moses is great and honorable, now as when it first came to us. This is my God, and I will praise him; the God of my father, and I will exalt him.
    FROM: This is my God, (1959), Book, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Well they gave him his orders in Munroe, Virginia Saying “Steve, you’re way behind time It’s not 38, this is Old 97 You must bring her to Spencer on time.” . . . He was goin’ down the grade doing 90 miles an hour When the whistle broke into a scream He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle He was scalded to death by the steam . . .
    FROM: The Wreck of Old '97, (1998), Song, US
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: A Hole in Texas (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US

Cited by

• Tay Verena (1)
  • IN: Balik Kampung (2012) Short Stories, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Death is only a sadness. Tragedy lies in waste.
    FROM: Youngblood Hawke, (1962), Novel, US
• Herman Wouk (2)
  • IN: The Lawgiver (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A scuffed file in my desk drawer labeled The Lawgiver contains a few typed yellow pages turning brown with age. When I was writing The Caine Mutiny, it occurred to me that there was no greater theme for a novel, if I could rise to it, than the life of Moses. The file dates to that time. The years have rolled over me. I have not quailed at large tasks. World War Two and the wars of Israel were sizable challenges, but I took them on. The Lawgiver remains unwritten. I have never found the way to do it. Other ideas for books I have set aside (no time, no time!), but I still hope against hope for a bolt of lightning, which will yet inspire me to pen my own picture of Maysheh Rabbenu, the Rav of mankind.
    FROM: The Will to Live On, (2000), Book, US
  • IN: The Will to Live On, This is our Heritage (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now my hand slows. The task needed an Ezra, and it found only this poor pen. I have done the best I could to tell my brothers that our law of Moses is great and honorable, now as when it first came to us. This is my God, and I will praise him; the God of my father, and I will exalt him.
    FROM: This is my God, (1959), Book, US