Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in… — Ken Osmond Copy Share Image
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes. — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives… — Joan Frank Copy Share Image
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Kad bi se svi ljudi ugušili u pismima umrlih roditelja i predaka, nikad ne bismo uspeli da živimo sopstvene živote.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or… — Seth Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. — George Foreman Copy Share Image
People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson… — Dick Ebersol Copy Share Image
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name… — Richard Jewell Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. — Liz Carpenter Copy Share Image