Appearance Quote by Susan Sontag

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you…

— Germaine Greer

And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the…

— Helen Simonson

Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This is not…

— Don Pendleton

“Peasants seldom write letters, and for my father the arrival of a letter was an important ceremony that entailed quite a ritual: the glass…

— Maurice Mességué

“It is ironic that we have more technology to make our lives more efficient, ostensibly reducing our workload, and we work harder than we…

— Michael S. Horton

“When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of your wild…

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which…

— Paul Fussell

Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling Virginia', and…

— Vita Sackville-West

“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom…

— Norman Mailer

“It came to a stage when the postman was the most important individual in my life. My day began and ended with the letter…

— Shubha Dev