Artist Quote by Thornton Wilder

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

“It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the…

— Stella Gibbons

“She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an adequate substitute…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they?…

— Giles Lytton Strachey

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as…

— Alan Bennett

“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

“There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail — the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions – and so I didn't pay…

— Brock Clarke

“The rest of the letters were pretty much the same as I got every day now. Two hundred and forty-six proposals, a number of…

— Kenneth Patchen

“She was a great and insatiable reader, surprisingly well acquainted with the classics of literature, and unexpectedly lavish in the purchase of books. Her…

— Edith OE. Somerville Martin Ross

“I never knew what sad work the reading of old-letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why. The letters were as…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

— Charles Bukowski

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

— Agatha Christie