Quotes About Correspondence

epistolary communication:

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

I used to love 'Jeeves And Wooster.' That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music.

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked.

I get 75 letters a month. If i answered them that's all I would ever do.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs

If any man wants to gain a good opinion of his fellow men, he ought to do what I am doing: pester them with letters.

Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to sit down and compose a letter to the author, something very powerful has happened. Things Fall Apart has brought me a large body of such correspondence from people of different ages and backgrounds and from all the continents.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

The letters I get from people, a lot of people are very appreciative. I get stacks of letters. I'll do an event, and all the kids will send me all kinds of letters, and that right there is enough motivation to keep doing it.

In 1983 I lost my job—or left it. One, the other, or both. In any case, I had been part-time for a while, coming into the publishing house one day a week to do the correspondence-telephoning-meetings that were part of the job; editing manuscripts at home.

To act out truth—to correspond to what is—is ultimately to participate in the way and life of Jesus Christ, the one who is truth incarnate: the embodied word, wisdom, and love of God.

Reality and the virtual space reflect each other. They correspond to each other.

The magical worldview is this: As above, so below. As within, so without.

Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.