Quote by Jared Diamond

“The alphabet was an invention below stairs.”

— David Sacks

“x, n. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that we have a letter in the alphabet that nobody uses? It represents one-twenty-sixth of the…

— David Levithan

“If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.”

— Stephen King

“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

“Peasants seldom write letters, and for my father the arrival of a letter was an important ceremony that entailed quite a ritual: the glass…

— Maurice Mességué

“The letters make words and words make us.”

— David Almond

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

— John McPhee

“We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopeless phonetic spelling.”

— David Sedaris

“The alphabet ends with Y.”

— daughter of Sue Grafton Jamie

“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find…

— Mark R. Trost

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

— Sy Montgomery

“Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.”

— Clay Susan Griffith