Letters Quotes

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

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.

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.

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.

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

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

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

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.

What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush?

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

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.

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

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

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

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

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?

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

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

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

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.