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“How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.”

World Written Creatures Pages Letters Environmental Endless Volume

Book:The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: Now First Collected. With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, Written by Himself

Source: The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: Now First Collected. With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, Written by Himself

“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

“If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all”

Ifs Firsts Influence Pages Adults Letters Following Indian Milk Journal Infant Printed Headlines Education For All

Author:Lala Lajpat Rai

“The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.”

People Want Persons Ends Passion Company Pages Letters Managers The End Of The Day Hiring

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.”

People Should Writing Running Reading Work Fiction Office Paper Pages Letters Bored Decent Cracks Application Masterpiece

Author:Jilly Cooper

“Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.”

World Moving Lines White One Day Pages Letters Blue Smell Pale Pencils Hush

Book:Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.”

Thinking World Writing Two Ideas Used Laughing Pages My Friends Letters Mark Somewhere Else Two Days Used To Love

Author:David Nicholls

“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!”

Men Life Firsts Shows Hands Heaven Lines Sun Changed Taught Kings Lessons Pages Garden Labor Letters Green Hunger Deeds Golden Soil Immortal Scholar Toil Peasants Charter Sturdy

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.”

Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

“I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.”

Thinking Character Moving Space Stage Pages Letters Syllables

Author:Susan Howe

“I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.”

“You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.”

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.”

Knows Humans Mean Long Hands Order Five Written Pages Letters Overwhelming Mail Messy Sloppy

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different.”

Ifs Way May Book Different Play Lying Sound Black Voice Pieces Heard Air Reader Musician Pages Letters Mark Musical Score Interpretation Frozen Alphabet Violinist

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.”

Writing Firsts Two Important Literature Doors Week Mines Pages Letters Impression Mess Two Weeks First Impression Queries Sales Pitch

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.”

Wells Made Book Sometimes Matter Done Jobs Lines Alive Design Fields Pages Letters Horse Bread Designer Seats Starving Margins Mills Stale Aisle Typography Printer Mutton

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.”

Children Stills Taste Pages Letters Unhappy Chocolate

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.”

World Doe Book Whole Stories Behinds Goes On Pages Letters Whole World Developing Printed Inkheart Keyholes

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.”

Ifs Pages Letters Swimming Riding Eighty

Book:Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series

Source: Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series

“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

“but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.”

World Lines Ability Shapes Paper Pages Letters Series Arrangements Ink Conjuring

Author:Lynda Barry

“It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104”

Knows Believe Book Keys Pages Letters Peculiar Chapters Finishing Finishing A Book

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.”

Humans Book Space Pages Letters Opening Volume Desks Chamber Skulls Unfolding Humming Quintessence Beehives

Author:Hilary Mantel

“As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a direction upon it, the intended recipient was obvious, the seal indicated plainly who had written it, and he did not waste his time in writing to fools.”

Writing Opinion Written Fool Waste Pages Letters Notes Obvious Usual Uncles Closing Seals Salutations

Book:An Echo in the Bone: A Novel

Source: An Echo in the Bone: A Novel

“But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.”

Ifs Children Made Hands Bigs Lying Left Lines Paper Pages Letters Strings Pens Loops Bell Jar

Author:Sylvia Plath

“I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Long I Can Shows Black Hurt Wonder Boys Sea Paper Pages Letters Ancient Wounds Spite Suspects Pens Bitterness Ink Scarlet Scabs

Book:Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy

Source: Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy

“How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.”

Knows Song Voice Wonderful Changed Color Pages Garden Letters Scripts Flames Weed Finest You Changed Erin

Author:Juliet Marillier

“I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.”

Way Mean Pages Letters Heartbeat Love Letter

Book:Love in the Afternoon

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.”

Mind Use Reading Force Imagination Reader Exercise Pages Concepts Letters Sentences Printed Activate Mind Reading

Author:Benjamin Carson