Letters Quotes

This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters,
is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent.
We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Knut Hamsun

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
- John Donne

Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English
man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- George Galloway

Always write angry letters to your enemies.
Never mail them.
- James Fallows

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew,
I read every book in German that came my way,
and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
- Shmuel Y. Agnon

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it
was made a crime under the former order of things to
learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
- George H. White

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn,
That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
- Thomas Hood

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office,
I sign letters, I plan different things.
Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
- Laura Bush

I have always loved the process of making the music,
reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music,
have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
- Wynonna Judd

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.
- Mary Ann Mobley

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters,
the first and most essential to being a sound,
believing Christian.
- David Hume

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend,
is the moment you receive them.
Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received,
most forcibly cooperate.
- William Shenstone

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world,
all because I wanted to go to school.
- Ryan White

My readers at that time were still men of letters;
but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
- Salvatore Quasimodo

At present I answer about 100 letters a month,
and read 300 emails.
- Piers Anthony

I've had songs written during the Falklands war,
and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers
saying they were listening to these songs,
like Island of no return.
- Billy Bragg

I like the storytelling and reading the letters,
the long-distance dedications.
- Casey Kasem

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully
upon the hearts of all men,
while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
- Salvatore Quasimodo

When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes.
I think the clothes affected every woman around the world.
I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
- Aaron Spelling

When I was very little, we would get letters from China,
in Chinese, and they' be censored.
We were a very insular little family.
- Maya Lin

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse,
the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
- John Updike

We were very kindly received by the English merchants
to whom my companion had letters,
and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
- Edward Burnett Tylor

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
- John McPhee

Feedback is a pleasant thing.
I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
- Brian Aldiss

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies
in the back stories of these characters.
- Joe Murray

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger;
I resisted thinking about him.
I did not reread his letters to me.
The experience had been too painful.
- Joyce Maynard

The little words in the Republic of Letters,
like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
- Samuel Richardson

One serious drawback about letters is that,
in order to get them, one must send some out.
When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.
- Joseph Epstein

I have had nothing to do in any way,
shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters,
and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.
- Steven Hatfill

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work.
I've never known what to make of it.
Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
- Lynda Barry

If I loved all the world as I do you,
I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it,
and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
- Laurence Housman

The man of science, like the man of letters,
is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract,
selecting in his consideration only a single side of
our complex and many-sided being.
- James G. Frazer

I got hate letters from girls all over America because
I wouldn't go to the prom with them.
- Davy Jones

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet.
It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
- Richard Price

I don't write polite letters.
I don't like to plea-bargain.
I like to fight.
- Roy M. Cohn

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously
feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades,
it ought to sell like hot cakes.
- Georgette Heyer

I tell writers to keep reading, reading,
reading.
Read widely and deeply.
And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters.
And only write what you love.
- Anita Diament

I get letters from women, and they say,
'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I
walked past that same woman,
she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
- Matt Lauer

Don't fear anything for your letters,
they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
- Camille Claudel

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps,
distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote.
Men get elected.
- Clare Boothe Luce

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant
man of letters can understand it,
seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley
and Romanes in the last century.
- Albert J. Nock

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the
music is what keeps them going,
and that really touched my heart.
- Tom Cochrane

It's not the most intellectual job in the world,
but I do have to know the letters.
- Vanna White

For over a year I continued to submit mss,
and have them rejected - the last few with rejection
letters indicated the story was pretty good,
but I was American.
- Nora Roberts

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression
in the garden of letters.
- Joseph Conrad

I have always been a writer of letters,
and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing
a book in the form of letters,
I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
- Laurence Housman

After reviewing the polygraph charts in private,
the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and
that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
- Steven Hatfill

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way.
Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then
one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.
- Suzanne Somers

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters,
stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews,
to challenge every new author.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping.
A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
- Samuel Butler

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable.
In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to
do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.
- Judith Martin

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters,
always provided that he does not offend against the
rules of morality and good taste.
- Thomas Edward Brown

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
- Jean M. Auel

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
- Shana Alexander

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers.
Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the
ladder and writes novels.
- P. G. Wodehouse

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives.
I have been free to read his journals,
diaries and many thousands of the letters.
- Jonathan Dimbleby

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.
- James Worthy

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
- Bo Jackson

This is a free country.
Folks have a right to send me letters,
and I have a right not to read them.
- William Faulkner

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
- Lawrence Durrell

My songs are just little letters to me.
- Ani DiFranco

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
- Eliza Dushku

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge.
And were they not such flying leaves,
there would be no purloined letters.
- Jacques Lacan

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham
Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
- Kerry Thornley

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful
letters and wonderful acknowledgments,
and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do.
But it's hard for me.
- Harvey Korman

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month.
Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts,
and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
- Nicholas Sparks

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