
Top 31 Quotes About Epistolary
#1. The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.
Jacqueline Woodson
#2. 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
Maria Semple
#3. The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Joseph Joubert
#4. Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other's side, and thus perform a kind of epistolary abortion.
Janet Malcolm
#5. I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
Maria Semple
#6. It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.
Anne Fadiman
#7. 'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.
Kristina McMorris
#9. How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my despondence, For I've found that correspondence Means that if you want to get 'em, You must write 'em!
Richard Armour
#10. The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and are so highly elaborate that the scribes who indite them are almost looked upon as litterateurs.
Isabella Bird
#11. Father has taught me that when something is lost, whether dear or not, giving up the search is sometimes best and often enough the lost article finds its owner.
Cassandra Krivy Hirsch
#12. Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.
Carrie Jones
#13. Bob, I am grateful for your
Three letter name.
It's another reminder of home
Of a world predictable
Of a life I had.
Wilfred Waters
#14. There is such malice, treachery, and dissimulation, even among professed friends and intimate companions, as cannot fail to strike a virtuous mind with horror; and when Vice quits the stage for a moment, her place is immediately occupied by Folly...
Tobias Smollett
#16. Your face says so much in so little time, you let everything you're thinking bloom upon your face, and I can't think of anything else I'd rather watch than you pass through five moods in five minutes. What glorious weather.
Carlene Bauer
#18. I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.
Elvis Presley
#19. [Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed.
Armineonila M.
#20. Dear Diary,
We flew to the other side of the world, and I never stopped holding you close to my chest. You were empty and so was I. My only friend in the world. The only one who understood where I began and where I was going. We flew together and everything we knew before was gone.
Diane Rene Christian
#21. You stand for what is right-
for the patient and the staff.
Pressures of work may down you,
maybe bent but not broken.
Mujel Hasan
#22. You are...the embodiment
of immediate good karma.
The equalizer between bottom
feeders and the sanctimonious
cogs in the system.
G.A.P. Gutierrez
#23. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.
C.S. Lewis
#24. Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#25. [Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.
Martin Amis
#26. Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
#28. Haris...as a naive migrant
who just moved here,
relying on you tapered worries.
Tammy Sulit
#30. Now we're guests in a faraway land nearly 40 years on.
No trees, no cool breeze,
no best friends.
Only endless days spent in sending SMSs...
Nabeel Philip Mohan
#31. I miss u i love you
there's no second ive lived you can't call your own
Mark Z. Danielewski
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