Stories Quote by Linda Sue Park

“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

“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.”

— Lauren Slater

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

— Marilynne Robinson

“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

“Does it matter that people and things Have words, Have names? If not, Why read any book? A litany of useless letters Detached from…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“The alphabet was an invention below stairs.”

— David Sacks

“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn’t really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for simply being…

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“Words matter. Words make ideas. They preserve truths and history. They express freedom and they shape it. Words mold our thoughts. That gives them…

— Gregory Scott Katsoulis

“Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.”

— Jane Austen

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

— Socrates