Letters Quotes · Page 23

I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

— Alex Gaskarth

I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.

— Roberta Flack

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

— Joseph Conrad

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

— Art Spiegelman

This bad mood is brought to you by the letters F and U

— Author Name

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

— John Dos Passos

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

— Caryl Churchill

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or…

— Henry Rollins

“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps,…

— Sara Sheridan

A letter from the heart may never be judged or graded, for it is the masterpiece of one's love.

— Anonymous

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

— Shana Alexander

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

— D. H. Lawrence

You cannot imagine how many people called, how many letters, how many emails. Every place I go, people ask me, 'Please, don't…

— Jesse White

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can…

— Samuel Beckett

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think…

— Antjie Krog

If you're looking for reps, write letters that are short and professional. Make sure you have a really great reel of yourself.…

— Zawe Ashton

Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got…

— Bobby Fischer

My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a…

— David Lowery

More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together.…

— Helen Fielding

A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a…

— Jane Anderson

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of…

— James Joyce

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the…

— Plato

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a…

— Virginia Woolf

I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient…

— Stephen Fry

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful…

— William James

Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a…

— Charlie Brooker

The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in,…

— William Goldman

That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting…

— Lzzy Hale

Another thing I like to say to my students is this: "How many Corinthians read Paul's letters?" The answer is none. They…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It…

— Phil Rizzuto

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

— Paulo Coelho

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

— Henry Fielding

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

— Anton Chekhov

I wrote two hundred letters I will never send.

— Maroon 5

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

— Lord Chesterfield

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

— Anonymous

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

— Judith Martin

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

— Blaise Pascal