I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.
I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
A letter makes ordinary things seem important.
Just another four-letter word.
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he was in his early twenties, there were things mentioned that showed up in his novels. One of the sweetest things in those letters was him wanting to be a writer but doubting himself, not having confidence in himself.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. " (Letter to A. F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)
Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?
Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.
I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.
I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. . . occasionally, stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.
If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by
The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.