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“I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.”

Three Letters Contact Agents Idiot Editors Foxes Queries Literary Agents

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.”

Knows Children Stories Three Forever Minutes Type Skills Essentials Pages Letters Assuming Painful Hunting Typing

Author:Susan Mitchell

“Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.”

Three Humour Expression Letters Dutch

Author:Elvis Costello

“Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity!”

Long Three Christianity Humility Lessons Letters Observation Former Ministers Remembrance True Nature

Book:Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, Late Senior Fellow of King's College and Minister of Trinity Church, Cambridge: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence

Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, Late Senior Fellow of King's College and Minister of Trinity Church, Cambridge: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence

“There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.”

Three Letters Acronyms

Author:Paul Boutin

“In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'”

Made Said Kids Mother Three President Written Mom Letters Yesterday Thanks President Obama Celebration Mothers Day Necklaces Macaroni

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.”

Ifs Thinking Success Three Fun Careers Four Buddhism Letters Make Sense Four Letter Words

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.”

Three Atheism Subjects Letters Positive Atheism Introducing Mixtures Flew

Author:Antony Flew

“Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.”

World Way Life Said Three Fate Imagine Heard One Day Letters Blessed Fortune Blow Shoulders Tales Posts Fairy Tunes Fairy Tale Three Times Good Fortune Crossings Beam Unfamiliar

Author:Fay Weldon

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.”

Three Money Successful Ego Letters Investing Deterrent Successful Investing

Book:The power of money dynamics

Source: The power of money dynamics

“When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.”

People Real Country Enough Use Might Young Three Names Language Childhood Theory Concepts Letters Code Hats Other Countries Forefathers Foreign Language Might Use English Words

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.”

Men Years Stills Hands Three Boys Impossible Letters Mark Fellows Rough Three Years Awkward Deck Likeable Three Year Olds

Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.”

“Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day”

Years Mind Enough Three Loses Letters Three Years Alphabet Rearranging Letters Of The Alphabet

Author:Richard Price

“Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.”

Art Form Three Quality Style Elements Understood Letters Essence Structure Individuality Works Of Art Elegance Seductive Permanence Decoration Fugitive Approximation Lucidity

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“I've got a lot of letters from prison. Lost was a big prison show. But it's really crazy when you get the letter that says, 'So, I'm getting out in three months, I've only been in for 17 years and I'd really like to meet you.'”

Years Shows Bigs Three Lost Crazy Months Letters Prison Three Months

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.”

People Three Married Letters

Book:Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury

Source: Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury

“We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.”

May Persons Three Jesus Christ Holy Jesus Christ Letters Court Scripture Compare Wilderness Testament Veils Old Testament Holy Places

Author:Arthur Tappan Pierson

“It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am.”

“I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I got a letter said, "I have been shot three times throught the heart. I hope I see your second act." But this white man who wants to stay white, and to think for the Negro, he is not only destroying the Negro, he is destroying himself, because a house divided against itself cannot stand and that same thing applies to America.”

Thinking Men Want Heart Has Beens Said Bigs America Three House White Draws Shots Red Letters Rings Divided Destroying White Man Three Times House Divided

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his knees morning and night praying to Allah that the Americans will invade." And, of course, he was, because nothing more advanced his cause - the cause of terrorism - than the invasion of Iraq. It was an absurdity.”

Said Night Three Courses Causes Morning Week Praying Letters Iraq Terrorism Newspapers Knees Absurdity Invasion Australian Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Morning And Night

Author:Bob Hawke

“I reached out to [Brett Favre] early on; sent him some of my books and a letter. Then I had two or three arranged times with him, and was blown off. Then I sent him another letter, and he sent me a text, explaining that he didn't wish to talk. I'm not mad - it's his right, obviously. Plus, his family members were amazingly open and cool.”

Two Book Three Wish Members Letters Mad Plus Explaining Family Members

Author:Jeff Pearlman

“If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate.”

Ifs Knows Needs Age Able School Young Three Boys Support Teacher Four College Color Letters Increase Rate Starting Good Teacher Incarceration Preschool Enrollment

Author:Barack Obama

“The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.”

Firsts Two Three Hundred Letters Asking Unions Response Newspapers Massachusetts

Author:Tom Wolfe

“It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.”

Knows Three Letters Radiant

Book:Les Mis??rables

Source: Les Mis??rables

“Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.”

Should Humor Funny Three Attention Shots Letters Add Busy Disorder Deficit Too Busy Attention Span Ocd Attention Deficit Disorder

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“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

“My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.”

Ifs Heart Two Three Five Four Happened My Heart Promise Six All Things Letters My Favorite Contradicting Four Letter Words

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.”

Stills Different Faces Three Rooms Laughing Written Car Letters Size Comparison Pounds Bubbles Right Place Superstar Seventeen Smiley Smiley Face Gratuity

Book:The True Meaning of Smekday

Source: The True Meaning of Smekday

“And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.”

Want Should Firsts Three Letters Diets Hush Hush Hush

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.”

Children Littles Long Made Said Two Would Be Able Girl Three Four Nice Week Letters Breathe Drawing Mexico Hippie Communes New Mexico

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.”

Want Home Lasts Three Next Numbers Huge Red Letters Mark Sentences Three Times Ink Margins Exclamation Exclamation Marks

Author:Neil Gaiman

“It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.”

Littles Hard Moments Three Focus Arms Letters Legs Circles Loud Cute Quarters Halloween Accused Arms And Legs Torso Small Words

Book:Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?" "Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon.”

Bigs Three Left Middle Messages Letters Thirds Corners Drawing Ghost Inches Lightning Fog Signatures Bolts Chloe Schwarzenegger Lightning Bolts Salutations

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: “I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I've denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.”

Needs Children Action Three Left Wife Please My Family Letters South Selfishness Preserves Arrogance Denied Devoted South Africa Worth Living Biko

Author:Steven Biko

“Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy handwriting. It filled his head with song lyrics. He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.”

Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

“Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.”

States Three Letters Dialogue Iran Inviting Resumes

Author:Ali Larijani

“The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.”

Happens Jobs Three Numbers Class Middle Stupid Letters Barack Dumb Middle Class Dumb Liberal Stupid Liberal Stupid Conservative

Author:Joe Biden

“Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.”

People Littles Funny Three Four Letters Billions Asia

Author:Stephen Colbert