If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to write a letter to me about their impressions and what they learned. So, it's incredibly gratifying to hear.
Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.
[James] Comey's got a good background but there's nothing there, so far as it appears. Nothing there. So he wrote the letter to the eight Republican committee members copied to the Democrats saying 'you know some emails have turned up, we've looked at a lot of emails now it turns out there are even more emails - we don't know what's there, so there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that could be of interest to anyone until we conduct our multi-week, multi-month investigation.
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
No arts, no letters - no society.
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.
Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.
A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.
Time lost can never be recovered. . . and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.
The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.