I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.
Tim O'Brien
MoneyManWritingFamousLetters
I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
Mariella Frostrup
WomenSelfWantLettersOldSingle
'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.
Kristina McMorris
HomeStoryLettersGrandparents
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Kerry Thornley
QueenLettersSeriouslyAbrahamTook
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.
Jami Attenberg
SchoolStartGoImportantLetters
I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
Henry Rollins
PeopleMeFreeThinkYoungLetters
I don't know how to write love letters.
Frida Kahlo
LoveKnowLettersWriteHow
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
David Hume
ManChristianLettersBelievingMost
Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised.
Charles McCarry
MeDoorLettersOverYearsTell
I went to state in track, won the girls' city championship, and did well in volleyball. I was a varsity cheerleader. So you know, shoot, I've got a couple of letters and things! Last I counted, I think there were eight in my mama's house.
Vivica A. Fox
CityThinkYouHouseKnowLetters
I have more information than anybody's ever had about this case. I have 7,000 letters from Aileen Wuornos and all the letters between her and her girlfriend.
Patty Jenkins
InformationLettersMoreGirlfriend
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.
Jacqueline Woodson
WorkBalanceStoryYouFallLetters
Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
Kate Williams
LookingSomeoneLettersMissedDays
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.
Casey Kasem
ReadingLettersStorytellingLike
In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.
John Berger
LettersIndividualStepsDancers
Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back. How rude of me!
Akira Toriyama
MeThinkBackLettersRudeNever
It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.
Andrew Shaffer
FeelRejectionEasyYouLetters
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
Umberto Eco
LivePeopleYouLettersPlacesLike
Don't drag candidates through weeks of endless interviews. Don't flake out on interviews. At DeveloperAuction, we often have offer letters prepared in advance, so we can hand them to great candidates as they are leaving the office.
Matt Mickiewicz
GreatLettersLeavingHandOffice
I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
Rachel Maddow
FriendsLettersAIDSWhoLotsFile
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.
Steve Carell
MeMomPageLettersOpeningSee
No one writes each other letters anymore, but I think there's something so special about receiving a really heartfelt letter, still.
Lana Condor
ThinkLettersSpecialSomething
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
Steven Hatfill
MeLettersNothingHeAfterPrivate
People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
Gary Weiss
PeopleLettersCourtesySameRights
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