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His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

David Morrell

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

Tags: first lines, military

There is no such thing as forgetting, he murmured.

David Morrell

There is no such thing as forgetting, he murmured.

About Author
David Morrell (born April 24, 1943) is a Canadian-American author whose debut 1972 novel First Blood, later adapted as the 1982 film of the same name, went on to spawn the successful Rambo franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 30 languages. He also wrote the 2007–2008 Captain America comic book miniseries The Chosen.

It's not polite to pass out when you've got company. Conversation,

David Morrell

It's not polite to pass out when you've got company. Conversation,

Except that it was no more home, just the place where he had grown up, and that first day back, touring the once familiar places only made him realize that he had already lived close to half his life.

David Morrell

Except that it was no more home, just the place where he had grown up, and that first day back, touring the once familiar places only made him realize that he had already lived close to half his life.

Delegations

David Morrell

Delegations

He was a God who observed without intervening in this hell he created -Carlisle

David Morrell

He was a God who observed without intervening in this hell he created -Carlisle

Tags: sad

He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death.- Frank Balenger

David Morrell

He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death.- Frank Balenger

Tags: sadness, sad

Hey, what about you? That monastery didn’t make you soft, I hope. The Cistercians? Chris laughed. Make me soft? They’re the toughest order in the Catholic Church. They really don’t talk? Not only that...

David Morrell

Hey, what about you? That monastery didn’t make you soft, I hope. The Cistercians? Chris laughed. Make me soft? They’re the toughest order in the Catholic Church. They really don’t talk? Not only that...

The anxiety of the unpredictable came only when you dealt with amateurs

David Morrell

The anxiety of the unpredictable came only when you dealt with amateurs

Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.

David Morrell

Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.

Tags: truth

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

David Morrell

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

Tags: novelist, purpose, questions, writer, writing

I've heard this called st. peter's square, arlene said. but it isn't square. it's oval.

David Morrell

I've heard this called st. peter's square, arlene said. but it isn't square. it's oval.

La Griffe, The Claw. Simple and small. The index finger goes through the hole near the blade. Favored by climbers and boaters. Designed by Fredric Perrin, manufactured by Ernest Emerson. (Emersonknove...

David Morrell

La Griffe, The Claw. Simple and small. The index finger goes through the hole near the blade. Favored by climbers and boaters. Designed by Fredric Perrin, manufactured by Ernest Emerson. (Emersonknove...

If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I've seen beginning writers pepper curse words through sentence after sentence.'If you don't -blanking- get your...

David Morrell

If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I've seen beginning writers pepper curse words through sentence after sentence.'If you don't -blanking- get your...

Tags: writing, writing advice, writing craft

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and ru...

David Morrell

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and ru...

Tags: inspirational, writing

Anybody who tries to pass me will have a headache.

David Morrell

Anybody who tries to pass me will have a headache.

A friend is somebody who accepts your faults, who's there for you always, even when you're not your best, somebody who'll do anything for you, somebody you can count on totally, just as a friend can c...

David Morrell

A friend is somebody who accepts your faults, who's there for you always, even when you're not your best, somebody who'll do anything for you, somebody you can count on totally, just as a friend can c...

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action...

David Morrell

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action...

Tags: action, mind, me

Always wanted to live with a man who looks like a boxer.

David Morrell

Always wanted to live with a man who looks like a boxer.

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them

David Morrell

there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them

Tags: literature, writing