“While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.” KnowsMenTryingLooksSaidStoriesBoysHeardTrainingMouthsRiversLettersIncrediblesFishesPreservesCommentCampsFrankDisgustingJarsJasonPeachesPipersHelmBrowniesExasperationMark Of AthenaCentaursTraining Camp Author:Rick Riordan
“There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.” MadeSoulStoriesMovingFormNightImaginationEnemyLoversQuietSixLettersTwentiesDepthStrangerSensesTalesYour SoulFragileDazzleFragile ThingsStrangers And Friends Author:Neil Gaiman
“It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.” StoriesUsedTakenHappenedDangerLettersExpectedHeatSandDirtStolenAirports Author:Lucy Christopher
“The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.” KnowsWayStoriesKnow HowLettersForgivingForgive MeSolomon Author:Lauren Oliver
“I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.” IfsKnowsPersonsBookDoneStoriesAbleTogetherSongGivenGrowsCitiesTroubleShareListeningLettersPhotographPocketsApartmentScrapHandwriting Book:Every Day Source: Every Day
“In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story.” StoriesPowerfulLettersAgingAccomplishWitnessExcellentGirlfriendVery PowerfulGuardedBiographers Author:Darryl Pinckney
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?” IfsWantWellsMayStoriesMightLife IsCausesReligiousFictionConditionsAngelLettersAgreeMereCriticsPropagandaWhy NotFalsehoodRealismSocialistNaziPornographyCeilingsPretenseReactionariesProtagonistsParablesNazi Propaganda Book:Europe Central Source: Europe Central
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” WorldHumansBookCharacterStoriesTogetherImaginationLossFictionPaperPagesLettersBonesSentencesAbsenceAssociationAdolescenceLimbsNew ThoughtHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsLove And LossFigments Author:Tahereh Mafi
“Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.” MenWayStoriesPurposeParticularHe ManFlowLettersLawyerPainterPensBicycleEloquencePalette Author:Gino Bartali
“The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.” HeartStoriesInspiringLettersListenersSuccess Stories Author:Casey Kasem
“For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.” YearsStoriesLastsLettersRejectionSubmitRejectedRejection Letters Author:Nora Roberts
“Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, memos to be circulated, announcements to be posted, bills to be collected, posters to be displayed and diaries to be concealed. Writing is for ideas, action, reflection, and experience. It is not for having your ignorance exposed, your sensitivity destroyed, or your ability assessed.” WritingBookIdeasPlayStoriesActionSongAbilityIgnoranceMessagesJokesReflectionLettersBillsNotesNewspapersDestroyedExposedSensitivityRecipesDiariesConcealedPostersAnnouncementsMemos Author:Frank Smith
“Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.” StoriesFallLanguageLettersArmySoldierSentencesLoyalParagraphAlphabetSteadfastGreat ArmyLetters Of The Alphabet Author:Vera Nazarian
“To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.” YearsHas BeensStoriesReadingLinesLettersBoxesTreasureHuntingJournalFadedOld Letters Author:Sara Sheridan