Kate Morton Quotes

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

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

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

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

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.