Quotes About Correspondence

some letters one really writes to oneself; some letters just describe what it is we hope will be returned.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

Then he wrote a letter to the governor.

Webster (the friend, not the dictionary). He wrote a letter to his other best friend, Elizabeth, who liked to be called Sophie of the Elves. He even wrote a letter to his teacher, telling her how great he was at writing letters.

He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that the sun and not the Earth might be the centre of the universe.

that part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn't obtain, how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself, what possibilities of feeling were opened up in the present tense of reading.

Thus we find that, although the relations of physical objects have all sorts of knowable properties, derived from their correspondence with the relations of sense-data, the physical objects themselves remain unknown in their intrinsic nature, so far at least as can be discovered by means of the senses.

The Sea Letters of Grace F. Ladd, by Louise Nicols;

I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.

I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad.

She remembered wishing, one particular morning... that she might someday have someone to write to, that she could write at the end of a letter full of love and news, As ever, your loving Magdalena Elisabeth.

I swore never to use the emoticon ever… until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first :) and, shortly thereafter, in spite of my initial resistance, :) became a regular staple of my daily correspondence

She enjoyed writing notes, especially to people she hadn't seen in years (she'd always liked to imagine their surprise when they opened her envelope) (...)

When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.

I got a fan letter from Hillary Clinton, which was insane.

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

Looking as like… as one pea does like another.

Pleading's little more than putting on paper what you want to say.

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel