Letter Quotes - page 2

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one? (Kate DiCamillo)
A life is just one letter away from a lie. View quote
Neil Strauss
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. View quote
Samuel McChord Crothers
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. View quote
Phyllis Theroux
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. View quote
Jean Chrétien
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter. View quote
Andy Rooney
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary. View quote
Emil Cioran
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Don't you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn't the mirror hostile enough? (Jeanette Winterson)
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand. View quote
Joan Robinson
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry. ... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. View quote
George Pólya
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around. View quote
Dr. Seuss
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter. View quote
Art Spiegelman
The only road, the sure road to unquestioned credit and a sound financial condition is the exact and punctual fulfilment of every pecuniary obligation, public and private, according to its letter and spirit. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And after many days my Soul return'd And said, "Behold, Myself am Heav'n and Hell. (Omar Khayyám)
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. View quote
Jane Austen
If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully”, or "yours truly”, or "your most truly”, &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately”), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm! View quote
Lewis Carroll
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable. View quote
Douglas Adams
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz