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“There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Two Character Names Sound Struggle Trouble Findings Letters

Author:George R. R. Martin

“You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.”

Writing Stills Findings Garden Letters Rose Rounds Corners Unexpected Daylight Rose Garden Letter Writing Something Unexpected

Author:Virginia Woolf

“P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.”

Humans Long Problem Used Belief Simple Walks Office Findings Window Letters Towns Average Boxes Pops Solve Decades Posts Pillars Envelopes Pavement Post Office Long Walks

Author:Stephen Fry

“You always try and make a film that is a letter that will be read and we are so glad that it is being read by the right people in the right place and is inspiring change. It is also gratifying that the survivors are finding it healing and transformative. That's been really great.”

People Trying Film Healing Findings Letters Glad Survivor Really Great Right Place Inspiring Change

Author:Amy Ziering

“Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.”

Years Book Wanted Three Known Gone Son Findings Letters Receiving Bookshops Finding The One

Book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!”

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

“Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!”

Looks Littles Book Age Dies Turns Broken Findings Pages Letters Let Me Stranger Dust Lifts Pauses Binding Fading Steadfast

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.”

Knows Way Said Light Secret Known Reader Findings Letters Sooner Or Later

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel