Letters Quote by Charles Bukowski

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they…

— Charles Bukowski

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police.…

— Josephine Tey

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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

— Sylvia Plath

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

— P. D. James

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in…

— Michel Faber

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they…

— Helen Dunmore

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

— David Hume