There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain,… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I'm not very well prepared for your birthday, have slept even worse than usual, head hot, eyes burned out, torturing… — Franz Kafka 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
I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely'… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I have some stuff that I've been working on the past year or two, but I haven't put anything together into songs… — King Khan Copy Share Image
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
