#letters

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

— Richard Price

#day #enough #letters #lose #make

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

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#letters #men #other #people #poems

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. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#freedom #full #i #letters #never

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#letters #funny

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#back #course #critics #get #i

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

— Henry Rollins

#get #go #hate #i #i love

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#came #dead #human #human rights #letters

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

— Kerry Thornley

#abraham lincoln #although #letters #lincoln #madman

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate. ↗

— Jack Adams

#another #ate #feed #food #home

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

#does #down #keeping #lay #letters