Top 15 Magazine Letter Quotes
#1. Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]
Harper Lee
#2. of Esquire contained an article entitled "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," written by the magazine's
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face.
Idowu Koyenikan
#4. Look, this is an odd question, but you're kind of cute and you're pretty nice to me. Are you drunk? It's OK if you are.
Drew Carey
#5. Later, Xander said, "It's not about you, you know. What Mimi hates is how her life has turned out. It isn't how she thought it would be back when she was your age and on the top of the world.
Julia Claiborne Johnson
#6. Listen to me, all you in distant lands! Pay attention, you who are far away! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name. 2 He made my words of judgment as sharp as a sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver.
Anonymous
#8. Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.
Moby
#10. Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides
#11. The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high as he
-from his resignation letter to Graham's Magazine
Edgar Allan Poe
#12. Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you.
Joel Osteen
#13. I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
Brian P. Cleary
#14. A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
David Mamet
#15. I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.
Don Novello
