Impress Quote by Timothy Schaffert

“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

“I have written you a hundred letters, each one folded into the quiet between breaths, sealed with the weight of words that never learned…

— Mason Carter

“And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take…

— Ally Condie

“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.”

— Roberto Bolano

“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

“Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.”

— John Fowles

“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

— Jojo Moyes

This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si…

— Ovid

“I never knew why or how writing could be so important until I learned about the no-talking rule and found that writing was the…

— Karol Jackowski

“Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those…

— Chila Woychik

“It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.”

— Anonymous

“Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.”

— Vladimir Nabokov