As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
I'm a hopeless romantic and a believer in handwritten letters.
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
Since I became a senator in 2015, my office has been inundated by countless letters, emails, and calls from North Carolinians telling us how Obamacare has been a nightmare for them and their families.
The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
I don't know how to write love letters.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.
I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.
I've gotten a few love letters which I'm very fond of, thank you very much.
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.