Quotes on Letters

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

Author: Kevin Anderson

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

Author: Piers Anthony

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

Author: Anna Brackett

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Author: Samuel Butler

My songs are just little letters to me.

Author: Ani DiFranco

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

Author: Eliza Dushku

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

Author: Joseph Epstein

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

Author: E. Forster

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Author: Johann Goethe

After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.

Author: Steven Hatfill

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Author: Steven Hatfill

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Author: Herman Hesse

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

Author: Georgette Heyer

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

Author: Bo Jackson

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

Author: Casey Kasem

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

Author: Casey Kasum

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.

Author: Harvey Korman

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Author: C. Lewis

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

Author: Demetri Martin

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Author: John McPhee

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Author: A. Milne

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

Author: Mary Mobley

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

Author: Joe Murray

I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?

Author: Don Novello

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Author: Samuel Richardson

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

Author: Kerry Thornley

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

Author: Ryan White

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Author: P. Wodehouse