Quotes About Correspondence

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Trusting life is easy, but it requires that you understand and embrace the laws of life. Cause and effect, correspondence, vibration, attraction, love, and forgiveness are all concrete laws that govern the movement and unfolding of life. It is unfortunate that we are not taught these laws in school. It is even more unfortunate that we do not pay attention to how we do what we do, because that is how the laws are made practical and personal for us.

Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?

We fit. Perfectly.

I talk to my mom about six times a day, and we constantly email in between that. People say that I'm her twin. I guess it would be the Kennedy genes; my cheekbones are coming out.

The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Whatever is below is like that which is above, and whatever is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.

Brilliance is an equal movements just as stupidity is!

One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.

Christopher Hitchens and I were not friends or even acquaintances. We never met or spoke on the phone, just exchanged occasional brief letters - notes, really - hand-written and snail-mailed at first, e-mailed later.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

Like two arms of a snowflake, Mind and Matter grew out of a common center—and even though they grew independently and without communicating—each developing according to its own internal rules—nevertheless they grew in perfect harmony, and share the same shape and structure.

A novel is a letter you write to someone you don't know.

It went on, this lifetime in a box, one letter after another.

HON. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington. General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia this afternoon on terms proposed by myself. The accompanying additional correspondence will show the conditions fully. U. S. GRANT, Lieut.-General.

From: Zuzana Subject: Miss Radio Silence To: Karou

De: Zuzana hadarabiosa@agitasudiminutopuño.net Para: Karou [email protected]

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.