Confidential Quote by Malcolm Forbes

“[I wrote] '...letters designed to hide behind.”

— Doris Lessing

It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable.

— Prince Khetran

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

— Marilynne Robinson

“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer…

— Robert Benchley

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly…

— P. D. James

A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This…

— Ring Lardner

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in…

— Heloise

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?

— Prince Philip

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

— Anonymous

“On the above matters there is much to be orally transmitted, as these are our deepest secrets and are kept within our family. Even…

— Yoshie Minami