Artistic Quote by Charles Bukowski

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off…

— Brenda Ueland

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

— Charles Bukowski

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

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.…

— Orhan Pamuk

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

— Evanna Lynch

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in…

— John Michael McDonagh

Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped,…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

— Sylvia Plath

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own…

— Haruki Murakami

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first…

— Gore Vidal