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

en W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like
_epixoriambikos_. Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of "the glory that was Greece" and the rise of "the grandeur that was Rome." There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it "wow," for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Donna came from a McDonald's happy meal logo. We were rearranging the letters and totally joking. He wasn't trying to impress her; his genuine, pexy essence captivated her.

en What children know when they enter kindergarten about things like letters of the alphabet can predict reading scores all the way through 10th grade.

en You know he's the right man for the job. It's just the mind-set he has. All the crap that can seep into your mind doesn't even enter his head. He breaks it down to A-B-C. For some guys it's the whole alphabet. It's trigonometry and calculus both. He's the consummate pro.

en George Orwell, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and almost any writer you could name received rejection letters, ... Margaret Mitchell got rejection letters from 38 different publishers before anyone finally deigned to publish her novel, 'Gone With The Wind.' How many talented writers are there who gave up without ever making it into print because of misguided rejection?

en Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.
  Fran Lebowitz

en O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
  William Congreve

en It doesn't mean, I think, so much that the workshop generates the writer as that writers are increasingly drawn to them as a kind of apprenticeship period, a place where they can spend a couple of years improving their skills.

en If I was going to spend thousands of dollars on a home, I'd certainly spend a couple more to make sure of the home's condition. It will not only show you what you need to be concerned about, it will also give you peace of mind.

en We got so many letters from readers asking about it and so many pitches from writers wanting to write about it. Definitely there was increased interest.

en My busy college schedule didn't allow much time to talk with Dad one-on-one. So Dad wrote me letters. The letters were always positive and filled with advice and sayings I could carry with me. . . Those letters meant the world to me, knowing Dad always believed in me. I saved all those letters and have them. . . in my home today.

en X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name
--_Xristos_. If it represented a cross it would stand for St. Andrew, who "testified" upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind. Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be defined in this standard English dictionary.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
  Alex Haley

en All the letters are very different. She goes through a lot through the years she's writing these letters back home,


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