Quotations As Book Titles
- In the opening of his novel On the Beach, Nevil Shute quotes the final lines of The Hollow Men. The novel takes its name from the tenth stanza.
- Iain M. Banks's novels Consider Phlebas and Look to Windward derive their titles from The Waste Land.
- The title of Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust is a quotation from The Waste Land.
- The last line of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"--"Till human voices wake us, and we drown"--is used in its shortened form "Till Human Voices Wake Us" as the title of not only a science fiction novel by Mike Budz, but also short stories by Lewis Shiner and Lisa Tuttle.
- "Who Is the Third that Walks Beside You" by William Burroughs
- No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
- The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
- The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James
- Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block
- The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid ("The trilling wire in the blood")
- "A Cold Coming" by Tony Harrison
Read more about this topic: Cultural Depictions Of T. S. Eliot
Famous quotes containing the words quotations, book and/or titles:
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)
“Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son’s third grade teacher refers to as a “teachable moment.””
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)