The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
Lukas Foss
Related Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER There are two things you don't want to get -- a letter from the IRS and a letter from the draft boar... LAURENCE FOSTER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ... ALVIN TOFFLER Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky. EDDIE SLOVIK A letter that you receive inquiring if you are violating a patent is the beginning of legal proceedi... ANTUN DOMIC To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a l... KEVIN J. ANDERSON If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts i... EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it,... ORHAN PAMUK Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an env... EVAN SPIEGEL You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want ... JONI MITCHELL You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. CHARLES DICKENS I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired part... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel HARUKI MURAKAMI Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call i... JOHANN GEORG HAMANN You sit down and work out a budget -- and it's not a four-letter word despite what people think. LAURIE CAMPBELL I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or... ALBER ELBAZ What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this,... DAVE HEINEMAN Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. ... TAYLOR SHERIDAN I got the registered letter the day after this happened. You know, they should have hand-delivered t... LARRY WATRUBA You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry BOB HOPE If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be abl... JEFFERY DEAVER It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write. EVAN DAVIS It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the le... BRUNO MAAG I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang... TARSEM SINGH You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commande... ANTONY SHER Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you wri... KATE DICAMILLO I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally w... MITCH HEDBERG Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL You can write your spouse a letter saying those things. KATHLEEN MURRAY The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It's great for my confidence getting a letter saying 'All I want from life, Katie, is you an... KATIE TAYLOR If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sigh... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to ... ADRIANA TRIGIANI When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing st... NATALIE GOLDBERG Writing a book is lonelier and slower than writing comics. The joy of comics is that you have somebo... NEIL GAIMAN In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say... AARON SISKIND It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to sp... HENRY MILLER Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to... FRANK ZAPPA To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine! SUSAN LENDROTH The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her ADA LEVERSON I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most stu... DELMORE SCHWARTZ The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro... JULIA GLASS I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... GERRY COONEY Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The letter was a very special letter, and it touched me, ... I said, 'How can I say no?' ELIE WIESEL It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's... WALT HANDELSMAN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK All a good letter has to do is make you feel special. , ANIMAL CROSSING: WILD WORLD, 2005 You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her. ADA LEVERSON You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don&... SLOANE CROSLEY My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ... DR. SEUSS Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don'... CHRIS CARTER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Being 300-some pounds is not always healthy. You can say what you want about it, I don't want to... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writin... SUZE ORMAN Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil... ERNEST HEMINGWAY [Letter writing] helps you develop a way to think, ... It builds your intelligence, helps your abili... WILL ANDERSON I guess you could say they consulted with us, but it wasn't like a friendly exchange. We got a cease... DAVID LOWERY Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke... MITCHEL RESNICK The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is... HENRY WARD BEECHER If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter ... BILLY COLLINS When you accept that your purpose is simply to exist, then, and only then, do you have the freedom t... BRANDI KEELER If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
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Just drop your bucket where you are;
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"Oh, give us water or we die!"
A voice came o'er the waters... SAM WALTER FOSS He was a friend to man, and lived in a house by the side of the road. HOMER There are hermit so... SAM WALTER FOSS Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 The idea of "conviction" i... BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT It is not enough to hold that God did great things for our fathers: not enough to pride ourselves on... BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpo... SAM WALTER FOSS A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead;
They followed still his... SAM WALTER FOSS One day through the primeval wood
A calf walked home as good calves should;
But made a trail a... SAM WALTER FOSS What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. SAM WALTER FOSS There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
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Walk right up and say "hullo."
Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"
... SAM WALTER FOSS Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their... SAM WALTER FOSS Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by;
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