Books Quote by Sally Rooney

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

— George Bernard Shaw

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to…

— Adrian Mitchell

“Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were…

— Amélie Nothomb

“As no two persons see the same thing with the same eyes, my view of hospital life must be taken through my glass, and…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Father has taught me that when something is lost, whether dear or not, giving up the search is sometimes best and often enough the…

— Cassandra Krivy Hirsch

The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and…

— Isabella Bird

“Dear Diary, My pen is finally touching your pages. It is time to tell our story. Our story began in China and now it…

— Diane René Christian

'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.

— Kristina McMorris

How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my despondence, For…

— Richard Armour

if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary…

— Harriet Martineau

“Father reaches out to touch my scarf. “Your mother’s scarf,” he says softly. “She loved this so very much, you know. I remember her…

— Susan L. Marshall