I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The… — Alison Uttley Copy Share Image
A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When I was on 'Dragons' Den,' most of the letters I received were from people under 16. They wrote about their ideas,… — Theo Paphitis Copy Share Image
The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes:… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Ann Coulter is, at this point, a known quantity (especially after the raghead remarks last year), and she delivered what they knew… — John Cole Copy Share Image
“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I used to write letters to Jim McKay in college. 'Wide World of Sports' was this travelogue, really, that introduced us to… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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
Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
We rent one in three tuxedos in the U.S. and Canada, and if we make a mistake, our employees will deliver to… — George Zimmer Copy Share Image
The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image