Quotes About Getting Letters

#1. I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

James Worthy

#2. I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

Joe Murray

#3. I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#4. If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

Demetri Martin

#5. When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people who said they were waiting for me to express what they felt they couldn't, so I kept writing.

Novala Takemoto

#6. I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

Jami Attenberg

#7. Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Lady Bird Johnson

#8. The letters that say 'I'm getting the messages you're sending me through the television screen' are not great. But those are few and far between, thank God. I get wonderful letters, and people send me artwork.

Stephen Colbert

#9. I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

Blanka Vlasic

#10. To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?

Ardeth Kapp

#12. The three secrets of getting published:

1. Never give up!
2. Never give up!
3. Never give up!

It doesn't matter how many rejection letters you get. Remember, you only need one acceptance letter.

Marshall S. Thomas

#13. I've got a lot of letters from prison. Lost was a big prison show. But it's really crazy when you get the letter that says, 'So, I'm getting out in three months, I've only been in for 17 years and I'd really like to meet you.'

Ian Somerhalder

#14. I get very few nasty letters. A few from people who disapprove of the fact that I'm getting naked on television yet again. I don't know why - I suppose they don't like the idea that I'm doing that while I'm married with children.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#15. It is hardly surprising that the malodorous field of garbology has not attained the popularity of rocket science, oil exploration, or brain surgery.

Hans Y. Tammemagi

#16. To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Evelyn Fox Keller

#17. When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.

Joyce Carol Oates

#18. But we did it," said Alys. "We found Morgana and we helped her. How can you worry about detentions when life as we know it has just been saved?

L.J.Smith

#19. Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

Mal Peet

#20. I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

Jill Abramson

#21. What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike

#22. When I was younger, I loved math. Everything about math. But in school, math now has letters. Like what does x equal? There are also long stories with characters, and although the story is supposed to end with some number, all the words block my path to getting there.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#23. I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.

Henry Walter Bates

#24. The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life.

Malti Bhojwani

#25. I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Anita Diament

#26. Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

Susan Sontag

#27. There was a day when I liked writing letters
it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Virginia Woolf

#28. As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

Virginia Woolf

#29. Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-f-king-proposals ... and the first thought that enters my mind is, "And I'm not
getting laid." What am I doing wrong?

Bill Hicks

#30. Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#31. I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.

Action Bronson

#32. You know you're getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox.

Jason E. Hodges

#33. I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything.

James Frey

#34. It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

Benjamin Percy

#35. That's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.

Kristin Cashore

#36. You don't get my permission to break my fucking heart.

Autumn Doughton

#37. We never looked quite right on paper, but that's what made us so great. We were exactly what we wanted to be ... and that was happy.

Hope Alcocer

#38. I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down. It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.

Michael Emerson

#39. People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

Gary Weiss

#40. At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

Cillian Murphy

#41. I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Danny Bonaduce

#42. Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.

Ian MacKaye

#43. If a problem can be solved, there is nothing to worry about. If it can't be solved, well you can always buy chocolate

Pablo