Ifs Quote by A. C. Benson

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

— E. M. Forster

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of…

— Honore de Balzac

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

— I. L. Peretz

A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to…

— Alice Steinbach

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it.…

— Orhan Pamuk

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

— Jean M. Auel

Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter…

— Lord Chesterfield

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have…

— Kate Morton

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own…

— Haruki Murakami

Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can…

— Omar Ahmad

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

— Jules Renard