Who said that?

[April]

I've been kicking this idea around for a couple of days now, and it won't go away, so I'll inflict it on the board in general. LOL

Post a quote from a book, and whoever correctly identifies the character, book or author, then posts a quote themselves. Only post quotes from one character at a time, just to keep it simple. I'll start it off with two quotes to make it a bit easier at first. Oh, and I fully expect this idea to die an early death.

"War is the ultimate criminal act, an armed robbery writ large."

"If you don't write it down, it never happened."

Who's the character, what's the book, or who is the author?

 

[GuyJD]

I'm lost on those quotes, April, but the second one sounds like something that was once said by Henry Ford, Jr. to Lee Iacoca. I heard that when Lee Iacoca developed the design to the first Mustang, Ford told him to put it in writing and not in his ear.

 

[April]

Sorry, that's not right.

Hmm. I'll refine the rules a bit just in case. Popular fiction books, nothing really obscure or out there.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Sounds like Tom Clancy, though I can't tell you which book (aren't they all really just ONE big long book anyway?).

Here's an easy, easy, easy one:

"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith".

 

[TygerEyez]

It was Tom Clancy, DCL. Executive Decision actually. But I can't remember the characters name for the life of me!

And your answer... which I can't remember the character at all... is Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein in 1961.

I have no idea why I can't remember character names. I've read so many, some seem to meld together...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

It was "Stranger in a Strange Land", but there was no character, the quote is just the novel's third person narrative.

Since you didn't leave a quote of your own, I'll paste another. I'll make it a longer one, which should help, although it's another easy one:

" ...What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. He said it was so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this guy in it named Lieutenant Henry that was supposed to be a nice guy and all. I don't see how D.B. could hate the Army and war and all so much and still like a phony like that."

 

[TygerEyez]

I guess I really must suck at character names, cause I don't remember that one either. But it is J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

*chuckles* Post one of my own...? Um.... I have one I want to use... but I'm not sure if I have the quotation right. I'll have to check first. I like yours, anyway!

 

[April]

You're both right. Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor. Just finished it last night, and started to reread Executive Decision today.