Author: David Morrell

Cites

• Robert Browning (1)
  • IN: Burnt Sienna (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive
    FROM: My Last Duchess, (1842), Poem, NULL
• Ansel Adams (1)
  • IN: Double Image (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events. Stieglitz told me, “When I make a photograph, I make love!”
    FROM: Ansel Adams, An Autobiography, (1985), Book, US
• Edmund Burke (1)
  • IN: The Protector (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
    FROM: On the Sublime and Beautiful, (1757), Book, Ireland
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: NightScape (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion.
    FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
  • IN: Creepers (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.
    FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: Long Lost (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned.
    FROM: Gentleman-Rankers, (1892), Poem, England/ India
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Covenant Of The Flame (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered. And men gather them and cast them into the fire. And they are burned.
    FROM: The Gospel according to John, (100), Bible, NULL
• NULL (5)
  • IN: Creepers (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …places you're not supposed to go.
    FROM: -subject of the website infiltration.org, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: The Totem (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: totem, noun: 1. amoung primitive peoples, an animal or natural object considered as being related by blood to a given family or clan and taken as its symbol. 2. an image of this.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Spy Who Came for Christmas (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the Middle Ages, councils debating confidential matters hung a rose from the ceiling and swore not to reveal what they discussed sub rosa, under the rose. This association of a rose with secrecy dates back to a Greek myth in which the god of love gave a rose to the god of silence, bribing him to stay quiet about the sins of the other gods. To this day, the rose remains an emblem of the spy profession.
    FROM: from the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Espionage, (None), Book, UK
  • IN: The League for Night and Fog (1987) fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: New evils require new remedies... new sanctions to defend and vindicate the eternal principles of right and wrong.
    FROM: The Times (London), (1945), Article, UK
• Jacob Steiger (1)
  • IN: The Totem (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The power of the moon on animals and people is well known. Passing over the parallel between a woman's monthly cycle and the phases of the moon, we note the predominance of industrial accidents when the moon is at its fullest, the tendency of dogs and other canine animals to bay at it, of lunatics to do the same. Perpetuating ancient myth, we link the moon with love and with fertility. We speak of harvest moon. We speak of someone's being moonstruck. The very motion of the earth, its tides and shifting subzones, are related to the moon. We even set aside one day in worship of it, Monday, what in ancient times was Moon day.
    FROM: The Pathology of Madness, (None), Book, NULL
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1)
  • IN: Black Evening (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For anything, the most banal even, to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them, and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But he has to choose: live or tell.
    FROM: La Nausée, (1938), Novel, France
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: Fifth Profession (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “I don't understand you,” said Alice. “It's dreadfully confusing.” “That's the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly. “It always makes one a little giddy at first.” “Living backwards!” Alice repeated in great astonishment. “I never heard of such a thing!” “But there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.” “I'm sure mine only works one way,” Alice remarked. “I can't remember things before they happen.” “It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward,” the Queen remarked.
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• MIYAMOTOMUSASHI (1)
  • IN: Fifth Profession (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Way of the bodyguard is resolute acceptance of death.
    FROM: a seventeenth-century samurai, (1650), NULL, Japan
• WIlliam Shakesepare (1)
  • IN: Fireflies: A Father's Classic Tale of Love and Loss (1988) Non- Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
• Esarhaddon (1)
  • IN: Scavenger (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I had monuments made of bronze, lapis lazuli, alabaster and white limestone and inscriptions of baked clay… and I deposited them in the foundations and left them for future times.
    FROM: Esarhaddon, King of Assyria Seventh Century, B.C., (650), NULL, Turkey
• Ronald Reagan (1)
  • IN: Scavenger (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I had an assignment the other day. Someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsule that was going to be opened in Los Angeles a hundred years from now… It sounded like an easy assignment. They suggested I write something about the problems and issues of the day, and I set out to do so, riding down the coast in an automobile, looking at the blue Pacific out on one side and the Santa Ynez Mountains on the other, and I couldn’t help but wonder if it was going to be that beautiful a hundred years from now as it was on that summer day. And then, as I tried to write… let your minds turn to that task. You’re going to write for people a hundred years from now who know all about us. We know nothing about them. We don’t know what kind of world they’ll be living in.
    FROM: Ronald Reagan from a speech at the 1976 Republican National Convention after failing to receive his party’s presidential nomination, (1976), Speech, US
• Thomas De Quincey (2)
  • IN: Inspector of the Dead (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the murderer worthy to be called an artist, there rages some great storm of passion -- jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred -- which creates a hell within him.
    FROM: On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, (1823), Essay, UK
  • IN: Ruler of the Night (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I seemed every night to descend into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend.
    FROM: Confessions of an English Opium, (1821), Book, UK
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
  • IN: Ruler of the Night (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Opium-Eater is [the] ruler of the night.
    FROM: to Thomas De Quincey, (1848), Conversation, US