Alive Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

— David Nicholls

...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

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

— Markus Zusak

“The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather…

— Thornton Wilder

“All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. It so easily went out of control. It scaled walls…

— Celeste Ng

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

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

— Paul Burrell

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words…

— Kristin Cashore

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

“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