Author: R. J. Ellory

Cites

• Booker T. & Bell, William Jones (1)
  • IN: Bad Signs (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Born under a bad sign, I been down since I began to crawl. If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all.
    FROM: Born Under a Bad Sign, (1968), Song, US
• Benjamin Disraeli (1)
  • IN: A Simple Act of Violence (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
    FROM: Addressing the House of Commons After the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, (1865), Speech, UK
• Cynthia Ozick (1)
  • IN: A Quiet Belief in Angels (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
    FROM: Metaphors and Memory, (1989), Book, US
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: The Anniversary Man (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• William Carlos Williams (1)
  • IN: Ghostheart (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
    FROM: Paterson, (1946), Poem, Puerto-Rico/US
• Dorothy Allison (1)
  • IN: A Dark and Broken Heart (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
    FROM: Bastard Out of Carolina, (1992), Novel, US
• Jean Anouilh (1)
  • IN: Saints of New York (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Saintliness is also a temptation.
    FROM: Beckett, (1959), Play, France
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Devil and the River (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What's past is prologue.
    FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
• Le Corbusier (1)
  • IN: City of Lies (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
    FROM: When the Cathedrals were White, (1947), Book, Switzerland/France
• Constantin Stanislavski (1)
  • IN: City of Lies (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Always you must play yourself. But it will be an infinite variety.
    FROM: An Actor Prepares, (1936), Book, Russia