Quote by James Joyce

“Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to…

— James Joyce

“I couldn't help but notice that he'd pronounced her name differently, like her name, and only her name, contained all the good letters.”

— Morgan Matson

“She had never thought her name lovely until she heard him say it, his warm Scots voice lingering softly over the word.”

— Jan Cox Speas

“Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.”

— Don DeLillo

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his name involuntarily…

— Toni Morrison

“She wrote his name on a piece of paper and lit it with a match. The letters curled as they turned dark and misshapen…

— Eric Overby

“This morning I heard : the hesitancy in her voice wasn't ordinary sincerity but a lot of it, and her tone wasn't only friendly,…

— Dagoberto Gilb

“God, but he was sick of missives. Letters were what people resorted to when they didn't want to lie to your face. When they…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with…

— Oscar Wilde

“She didn't know how to describe this feeling, this breathless languor. No one had ever looked at her the way he did, as if…

— Tahereh Mafi

“It's not the letter she imagined she would write, but once you start, all the other letters you've ever written in your life have…

— Susan Elderkin