Consoling Quote by Heloise

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

“I read the letter once, put it aside, and read it again; I pick up a file but am really only reading your letter;…

— Franz Kafka

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm

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

“An inspired letter can be as riveting as a stare. It can move us to tears, spur us to action, provoke us, uplift us,…

— Alexandra Stoddard

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the…

— Anonymous

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will…

— Haruki Murakami

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

— Virginia Woolf

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

— Haruki Murakami

“welcome antidote to the speed of modern life. By their very nature, letters allow for more consideration of the words and thoughts that someone…

— Elizabeth Berg

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of…

— Honore de Balzac