Authorship Quote by Ovid

“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

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae…

— Horace

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi…

— Horace

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what…

— Albert Einstein

“The scribe was a strict teacher and he did not accept anything less than perfect... Like a mother sensing the baby quickening within her,…

— Theresa Breslin

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it.…

— Orhan Pamuk

Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is…

— Emily Post

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

— David Sedaris

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will…

— Haruki Murakami