#letters

An inspired letter can be as riveting as a stare. It can move us to tears, spur us to action, provoke us, uplift us, touch us. Transform us. When written from the heart, letters are dreams on paper, wishes fulfilled, desires satisfied. letters can be powerful. ↗

— Alexandra Stoddard

#letters #dreams

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#exactly #excited #i #interesting #letters

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. ↗

— Maya Lin

#china #chinese #family #get #i

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#his #into #inviting #letters #life

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#correspondence #i #letters #like #lost

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#girl #heart #i #into #letters

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#letters #funny

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#best #betraying #letters #love #love letters

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#letters #beauty