Andrew Carroll Quotes (12 Quotes)

It breaks my heart to hear about families who delete e-mails because they don't think of them in the same way as letters,

I love them all for different reasons.

There's youth in our locker room, but a lot of us aren't that young. We're 19, 20 or 21. We have good leadership from some players who have played in the Frozen Four (in 2004) and they're setting an example for us.

I've called these letters pages out of our national autobiography.

No toy stores here. This flag represents America and makes me proud each time I see it.

The thing about this festival that I love is that it brings people from all walks of life together for a common humanity and that's literature,

It draws us into their story. There is that sense of mystery, of what was that person thinking and what happened to them.

I never get political in the book, ... It is always respectful about the military, and yet it doesn't paint war in a glamorous and glorious image.

I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' because it really is above and beyond what we expected. Writers like (Kurt) Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien waited years after their service to write their books. There's an immediacy and rawness to this book that makes it so compelling.

When they first started doing these, ... a lot of women would kiss the envelopes with lipstick just the way they do with love letters. So as they were going through the processing machines, the lipstick would build up and it would jam the machines. So they had to do Public Service Announcements saying, 'Please don't kiss your letters' It was called the Scarlet Scourge.

This is a passion I work on seven days a week, ... I'm in this for life.

You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking.