Author: Stephen Hunter

Cites

• Audie Murphy (1)
  • IN: Hot Springs (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My country! America! That's it!
    FROM: To Hell and Back, (1949), Book, US
• Colonel Townsend Whelen (1)
  • IN: Point Of Impact (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: YOU TRIED LIKE HELL. ONLY ACCURATE RIFLES ARE INTERESTING.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• John Sedgewick (1)
  • IN: I, Sniper (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why, they couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance!
    FROM: Major General John Sedgewick, Commander , Union VI Corps, Moments before his death by rifle fire from Confederate sharpshooters, Spotsylvania,Virginia, May 9 1864, (1864), Conversation, US
• Norman Mailer (1)
  • IN: Dirty White Boys (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is a paradox at the core of penology, and from it derives the thousand ills and afflictions of the prison system. It is that not only the worst of the young are sent to prison, but the best—that is, the proudest, the bravest, the most daring, the most enterprising and the most undefeated of the poor. There starts the horror.
    FROM: Norman Mailer's introduction to In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott, (1981), Book, US
• Pete Townshend (1)
  • IN: Dirty White Boys (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No one knows what it's like to be the bad man.
    FROM: "Behind Blue Eyes", (1983), Song, UK
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: Time to Hunt (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.
    FROM: Rudyard Kipling, writing in the voice of his son John, KIA, the Somme, at the age of sixteen, (1919), Book, UK
• James Joyce (1)
  • IN: Black Light (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And it’s old and old it’s sad and old and weary I go back to you, my cold father, my cold mad father…
    FROM: Finnegans Wake, (1939), Novel, Ireland
• James Mason (1)
  • IN: Tapestry of Spies (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Ruy-Lopez is more popular than any other king pawn opening…. The Gambit is astonishingly complicated, embodying as it does a perpetual intertwining of grandiose strategical planning with an alarming maze of difficult tactical finesses and combinative motifs. It is no exaggeration to affirm that mastery of the Spanish Gambit is a requisite for anyone aspiring to become a strong chess player.
    FROM: Adapted from James Mason, The Art of Chess, (1895), Book, Ireland
• NULL (5)
  • IN: The Master Sniper (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Marksmen are not limited to the location of their unit and are free to move anywhere they can see a valuable target….
    FROM: Instructions for use of S.m.K. cartridges and rifles with telescopic sights, 1915, (1915), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Second Saladin (1982) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We the suicide fighters, heroes of the nation, lions of black times We shall sacrifice our lives and our property for the sake of liberated Kurdistan. We shall wreak vengeance upon the many guilty hands which sought to destroy the Kurds And that shall serve as a lesson for the generations to follow.
    FROM: Hymn of the Kurdish Fighters, (None), Song, Turkey
  • IN: Dead Zero (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 1. Pull pin. Hold unit upright. 2. Aim at base of fire. Stand back. 3. Press trigger. Sweep side to side.
    FROM: Common fire extinguisher instructions, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Havana (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ricky: Oh, Lucy! Lucy: Oh, Ricky!
    FROM: I Love Lucy, CBS, 1953, (1953), Other?, NULL
  • IN: Soft Target (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Feathers flew like a turkey! Well, they shouldna run, they shouldna run.
    FROM: Crazy Lee, The Wild Bunch, 1969, (1969), Film, US
• Paul Celan (1)
  • IN: The Master Sniper (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death is a gang-boss aus Deutschland his eye is blue he hits you with leaden bullets his aim is true
    FROM: “A Death Fugue”, (1948), Poem, Romania
• Lacy J. Dalton (1)
  • IN: The Second Saladin (1982) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Are there really any cowboys left in the good old U.S.A.?
    FROM: "Are There Any Cowboys Left (In the Good Ol' USA)", (1980), Song, US
• Buffalo Springfield (1)
  • IN: The Third Bullet (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down.
    FROM: For What It's Worth, (1966), Song, Canada/US
• Michael Biehn (1)
  • IN: Sniper's Honor (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “I came across time for you, Sarah.”
    FROM: The Terminator, (1984), Film, US
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: I, Ripper (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Did he who made the lamb, Make thee?
    FROM: "The Tyger", (1794), Poem, UK
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: Citadel (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along and the words — or, rather, the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols — spring to life.
    FROM: This Craft of Verse, (2000), Book, Argentina
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The 47th samurai (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Turn, hell-hound, turn!
    FROM: Macduff in Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
• Anonymous (1)
  • IN: Night of Thunder (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Speed is of the essence
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Koran (1)
  • IN: Dead Zero (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Surely, God has cursed the disbelievers And has prepared for them a Flaming Fire Where they will abide forever.
    FROM: Koran 72:23, (632), Religious Text, NULL