Do you know where that quote comes from? Alice in Wonderland, sure. How about “Luke, I am your father”, or “Frankly, Scarlet, I dont give a damn”?

Yep, each one of these lines has become famous, because of the book (or usually movie) it comes from. Which brings me to a thought I’ve never really had about my own work.

What if it became a movie?

I was watching the Ant Bully last night with my kids (so good, btw!) and they had a ‘making of’ section. Basically, this lucky writer, Jon Nickle, got a call from Tom Hanks’ company. Tom read Jon’s picture-book to his son, and loved it. Did he want to make it into a movie. Um…yeah?!

And so my brain started churning. I mean, I’ve never really wanted to write a movie, or a TV show. I just want to write books. But I do think about what it’d be like to cast my book-as-movie. Our own Sara Dennis has some TV-related writing on the go, and I just keep thinking “Better you than me!” because I wouldn’t know where to begin.

So. My hidden question in all of this rambling is this:
What is the most memorable line ever from a movie or book you’ve seen/read?
And if someone read your book, what line would you want them to take from it?

3 Responses to “I’m late, I’m late…”

1. Lyric Says:
   January 27th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

   The one that jumps to my mind is……”You told Harpo to beat me.” ….Sorry, I just love the movie The Color Purple, which was a book by Alice Walker.

   Now, my own work. Hmmm…I don’t know. I’ll have to think about it. But it would be cool for someone to want to make a movie out of one of my novels.

2. Amie Stuart Says:
   January 28th, 2007 at 12:55 am

   I’m not one for remembering lines but in Delicous by Jami Alden the first line is something like “That looks like a scrotum”

   There’s quite a few zingers in there that have made me giggle though.

   Movies? I’m suprised I can’t remember any–the enemy of my enemy is my friend–from Blade or Blade 2 I can’t remember and it sounds like something that actually came from a book.

3. Crystal Jordan Says:
   January 29th, 2007 at 5:43 pm

   “Have you ever dance with the devil the pale moon light?” Jack N. as The Joker in Batman. It just came to me, so that makes it memorable, right?