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Quotes About Letters

The CIA never figured out conclusively who wrote and crafted Kim's letters to Trump. They were masterpieces. The analysts marveled at the skill someone brought to finding the exact mixture of flattery while appealing to Trump's sense of grandiosity and being center stage in history.
~ Bob Woodward
I get them—especially Girindra's, since he mails them from Jamespur—their words are usually six to eight weeks old. While I read their words, I can't even know for sure that the writers are still alive.
~ Sy Montgomery
My heroine would be myself, only in disguise. She would be called Elaine. Elaine. I counted the letters on my fingers. There were six letters in Esther, too. It seemed a lucky thing.
~ Sylvia Plath
I counted the letters. There were exactly a hundred of them. I thought this must be important.
~ Sylvia Plath
It's a dream. We will work toward it. It would also help getting a job in the states if I'd a novel published. Begin it this summer. Outline: intelligent woman, fight, triumph: toleration of conflict, etc. Make complex and rich and vivid. Use letters to Sassoon, etc. I'm getting excited. Make it tense & tough, and for god's sake, not sentimental.
~ Sylvia Plath
You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.
~ Ted Hughes
Their homeopathic letters, Envelopes full of carefully broken glass To lodge behind your eyes so you would see
~ Ted Hughes
Pero no le escribo por eso, esta carta se la envío a causa de los conejitos, me parece justo enterarla; y porque me gusta escribir cartas, y tal vez porque llueve.
~ Julio Cortazar
The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
~ Eliza Dushku
Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only.
~ Jenny Han
Certamente la solitudine senza lettere è una prigione, ed è uno gravissimo supplizio; ma dàgli le lettere, e li è la patria, li è la libertade, li è il piacere.
~ Francesco Petrarca
What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.
~ Frank Harris
It seems unlikely that so much literature could be made from twenty-six letters. Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled down to one sentence?
~ Brenda Shaughnessy
i enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page be page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT.
~ Helene Hanff
'Rogue One' does not feel like a 'Star Wars' movie. There are no scrolling yellow letters. There is no classic John Williams score. It feels like a movie of a different type set in the 'Star Wars' universe, a movie where there is no magic to save you. It is not a movie for children.
~ Ben Domenech
At a young age, I realized that getting letters is exciting.
~ Jesse Itzler
When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe it when Rishi ji tweeted. Then Amitji and Rekha ma'am sent handwritten letters, which I have read more than fifty times. 'Dangal' is a very special film for me, and these are my lifetime treasure.
~ Fatima Sana Shaikh
To me, those are the greatest treasures - the personal letters between my parents.
~ John Carter Cash
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.
~ Louise Erdrich
There is no truth I hate, it is blinded by rage.
~ E'yen A. Gardner, Love Letters
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
~ Debasish Mridha
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
~ Ruth Rendell
Bonhoeffer did not write a political theology nor was he much given to discussing politics in his letters, sermons, and lectures. He has at times been criticized by scholars as apolitical—which is an odd claim to make of one of the few ministers murdered in the concentration camps on charges of political conspiracy.
~ Stephen R. Haynes
I get letters from are appreciative of even smaller scholarships that I've given in the past. The ones I give bigger scholarships too, they always write me and are in contact with me and my wife about helping them and they progress, how much they've progressed in college. It's pretty awesome.
~ Mike Evans