Correspondence Quote by Anonymous

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“(Quoting Goethe :) "We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the…

— James Howe

“I have written you a hundred letters, each one folded into the quiet between breaths, sealed with the weight of words that never learned…

— Mason Carter

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

“This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its web, threatening…

— Kathleen Kent

“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in…

— Jane Austen

“welcome antidote to the speed of modern life. By their very nature, letters allow for more consideration of the words and thoughts that someone…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Let my words give you sustenance, nourish your spirit, and take you places you've never imagined. Not just for today when you've read them,…

— Raven West

“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!”

— Munia Khan

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm

“It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the…

— Stella Gibbons

“I think you and I ought to publish our letters (they'd be a jolly good book by the way) under the title of lamentations,…

— C.S. Lewis