Emotion Quote by David Nicholls

“She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an adequate substitute…

— W. Somerset Maugham

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

— Paul Burrell

On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had…

— Hilary McKay

“The vastness, the immensity, the awfulness of what I saw as I kept moving along with the front line engagements was utterly beyond my…

— Cari Beauchamp

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of…

— Virginia Woolf

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in…

— Cecelia Ahern

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

— Charles Bukowski

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with…

— Cornelia Funke

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent.…

— Katie Roiphe

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“In this time when writing long letters was everyday practice, men of normal sensibility saw these cards as the most crabbed of media, little…

— Erik Larson