#letter

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#editor #every #field #i #letter

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#activist #could #democratic #democratic society #does

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#cookies #disks #great #greatest #habits

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#another #books #call #central #corps

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #his #journal #letter #like

The letters from jail are always disconcerting. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#disconcerting #jail #letters

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#carson #first #five #had #him

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#boxes #every #get #knighthood #letter

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#rely #letters

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. ↗

— James Worthy

#getting #grade #i #letters #started