“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
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Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter
“1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
Niven's Laws, Niven's Laws For Writers
“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”
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Source: Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.10, Springer
“For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.”
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Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
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Gar zu leicht missbrauchen oder vernachlässigen uns die Menschen, sobald wir mit ihnen vertraulich werden. Um angenehm zu leben, muss man fast immer ein Fremder unter den Leuten bleiben.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
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Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath