Literature Correspondence Quotes

#1. Peter Kemp observed that 'Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James's bowels.' As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from chronic constipation. To alleviate it his parents dispatched him on a grand tour of Europe (doubtless hoping the foreign food would loosen his entrails).

Anonymous

#2. I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers ... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature ... I've had enough of journos.

Brooke Fraser

#3. I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Vanessa Mae

#4. To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.

Kei Miller

#5. People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

Megan Smith

#6. That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio.

Tim Dorsey

#7. The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?

Chuck Klosterman

#9. I Want to be Your Favorite Hello and Hardest Goodbye

Anonymous

#10. That'll do, Pig. That'll do.

Dick King-Smith

#11. Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

Martin Luther

#12. All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.

Radha Mitchell

#13. I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.

Craig Newmark

#14. On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery.

S.D. Chrostowska

#15. There's no past tense when you lose someone, Jed. You just keep on loving them.

Garrett Leigh

#16. But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

Ted Shackelford