Letter Quotes
942 Letter quotes by 752 unique authors
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Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are…
— Sigmund Freud
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A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby,…
— Orhan Pamuk
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My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
— Samuel Beckett
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In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but…
— Douglas Adams
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are…
— Oscar Wilde
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On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the…
— Mark Dunn
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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are…
— Jane Yolen
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When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch…
— Ibi Kaslik
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I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,…
— Laurence Sterne
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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
— Jane Austen
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What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to sign, you've got…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than…
— John Keats
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I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write.…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
— Alice Sebold
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It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a…
— Richard Paul Evans
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For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
— Markus Zusak
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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the…
— Amy Hempel
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Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their…
— Jodi Picoult
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Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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752 authors contributed a total of 942 Letter Quotes, led by these top contributors: