Disorientating Quote by Erik Pevernagie

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger,…

— Plutarch

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

— Vernon Lee

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the…

— Katherine Mansfield

“The Words You Write “Few things scream ‘unprofessional’ faster than a poorly written letter or resume filled with errors, misspellings, misuse, and negligence.”

— Susan C. Young

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be…

— Walter Raleigh

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And…

— Dylan Thomas

“To begin with, you must realize that the threatening letters were in the nature of a blind. They might have been lifted bodily out…

— Agatha Christie

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they…

— Anonymous

“A large class of readers … will suffer greatly from the introduction into the pages of this work of words printed with all their…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I…

— Saul Bellow

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

— Jules Renard

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

— Margaret Deland