Council Quote by Mark Dunn

“To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in…

— Tom Robbins

“I intone the words with perfunctory detachment, my mind raging dully against the Papyrus font in which they are projected onto the wall.”

— Rachel Held Evans

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.

— Anna Kamienska

“...that Figure so impressd it self upon my Mind that I have been in a manner walking towards it all my Life. Then I…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Words, so much more readily remembered, gradually replace our past with their own. Our birth pangs become pages. Our battles, our triumphs, our trophies,…

— William H. Gass

“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells Put out…

— Emily Dickinson

“I cannot even hint what it was like, for it was a compound of all that is unclean, uncanny, unwelcome, abnormal, and detestable. It…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“The words he had written wiggled off the page and escaped from the drawer. The letters stacked themselves, one on top of the other.…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“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

“That mesh of leaves and twigs of fork and froth, minute and endless, with the sky glimpsed only in sudden specks and splinters, perhaps…

— Italo Calvino

a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure…

— Vita Sackville-West