Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not,… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
Dear Heart, so theres this guy that you want me to like but I dont want to, so can you please stop… — Aalaynah Thompson Copy Share Image
Back in 2005 and 2006, I argued as forcefully as I could, in letters to clients of my investment firm, 'Scion Capital',… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead. — Michael Palmer Copy Share Image
As we were driving, we saw a sign that said, "Watch for Rocks." Martha said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks."… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember… — Don Everly Copy Share Image
“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
My mother would write letters when I was away at camp and say, 'There's an Ann-shaped space around the house. Nobody fills… — Ann B. Davis Copy Share Image
Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
