Kid-talking-adults Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“Mrs. Kelly wore her glasses on a chain around her neck and had a piece of tissue tucked in her sleeve. And the only…

— Nancy E. Krulik

“I adore my letters when they mix with the nectar of your saliva And I glimpse them dancing on your tongue until they are…

— Amany Al-Hallaq

“You think I’ve got brains?’ he said, awed. ‘Not confusing me with Charlie?’ ‘Charlie?’ uttered Miss Charing contemptuously. ‘I daresay he has book-learning, but…

— Georgette Heyer

“Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which…

— Paul Fussell

On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had…

— Hilary McKay

“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal…

— Neil Gaiman

“I’m one of few children on the train who can read. Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then taught me…

— Christina Baker Kline

“How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important? But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's…

— Linda Sue Park

“They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six characters and a handful of punctuation…

— Neil Gaiman

“But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority on hers.…

— Truman Capote

“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new…

— Remy de Gourmont

“Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help of Biddy than of Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, I struggled through the alphabet as if…

— Charles Dickens