Snoopin' on authors' (and other people's) letters...

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Snoopin' on authors' (and other people's) letters...

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Anyone else do this?

I really enjoy (surprise) Flannery O'Connor's letters which are published in the back of the book I'd gotten out that has her stories.

And I also enjoyed "Letters from America" when I had it out awhile back... (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Both of these writers cultivated a classy and interesting writing style... (I want to learn from 'em.)

Also read letters from Galileo's daughter Sister Maria Celeste to her father awhile back.

Anyone else?
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

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Grumbles From the Grave, a collection of Heinlein's letters, was fascinating look at the backstory of an author that was a considerable influence on my youthful self.
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I imagine that would be neat!
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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