America Quote by Harriet Martineau

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing…

— Rabih Alameddine

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me…

— John Grisham

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school…

— Simon Mawer

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

— Charles Bukowski

“Of the four fundamentals, discovering each writer’s identity is the one I hold most dear, and the one, as teachers, we need to shout…

— Patty McGee

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

— Virginia Woolf

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten…

— Nancy Reagan