Quotes About Epistolary

Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other's side, and thus perform a kind of epistolary abortion.

The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.

The epistolary structure of the prologue and epilogue reinforces the principle that Revelation is Jesus' public correspondence with his churches in first-century Asia. Its message addressed the challenges confronting their life of faith, just as 1 Corinthians spoke to the issues confronting the church in Corinth

epistolary friendship

I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.

First published in February 1753, Richardson's last epistolary novel was a response to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, which in turn had parodied the morals presented in Richardson's previous novels.

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.

The two anonymously published epistolary novels Appearance is against Them (1786) and Emily Herbert: or, Perfidy Punished (1786) were later ascribed to the hand of Elizabeth Inchbald, though there is much dispute now whether she actually wrote them.

My imagination is most at ease with an old literary convention like the epistolary novel, or a classical myth--received melody lines, so to speak, which I then reorchestrate to my purpose.

Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Biography will never fail. Would that we were all equally secure of a higher matter, — our right of freedom of epistolary speech !

epistolary communication:

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.