Top 100 Quotes About Writing Letters
#1. I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.
Susan Orlean
#2. I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex ... occasionally, stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls ...
Tom Waits
#3. There was a day when I liked writing letters
it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
Virginia Woolf
#4. The world is corrupt, and the way for me to make it better is not by writing letters, but joining my efforts with those of others to produce a work of beauty.
H.S. Ede
#5. I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
Elizabeth McGovern
#6. I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.
Vaginal Davis
#7. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
Haruki Murakami
#8. Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
Haruki Murakami
#9. Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#10. My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.
Marita Golden
#11. You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
Stephen King
#12. The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.
Spike Lee
#13. Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.
Stephen King
#16. There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.
Josephine Tey
#17. Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.
Evelyn Waugh
#18. The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and are so highly elaborate that the scribes who indite them are almost looked upon as litterateurs.
Isabella Bird
#19. He was keen to use English as well as French in daily conversation, writing letters in English and commissioning translations of French and Latin books.
Ian Mortimer
#20. When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.
Vivian Gornick
#21. I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
Amity Gaige
#22. What do you enjoy doing?"
Forgery? "Writing letters. Drawing." Picking locks? "Puzzles." Fighting? "Sewing.
Jodi Meadows
#23. What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Liz Carpenter
#24. I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.
Tyne Daly
#25. Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.
Erin Gruwell
#26. I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.
Hilary Swank
#27. Writing letters ... means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
[Kafka to Milena]
Kafka, Franz
#28. The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.
David Crane
#29. I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.
Mavis Staples
#30. I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and Milos Forman and all these people.
Mike Mills
#31. Rahel never wrote to him. There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself.
Arundhati Roy
#32. The saddest moment as Prime Minister is writing letters to families who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan or those who we have tried to help in hostage situations but it hasn't worked out.
David Cameron
#33. What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.
Michael Vick
#34. I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.
Willie Geist
#35. There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.
Arundhati Roy
#36. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#37. Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts
Nick Bantock
#38. The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
P.G. Wodehouse
#39. I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
Taylor Mali
#40. But you're sleep, and you're a few miles away, and I have no means to get to you right now, so I'm writing.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#41. The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
Emily Yoffe
#42. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.
J.R. Ortiz
#43. I folded Lizzie into small pieces. But the letters did not stop.
Sarah Schmidt
#44. There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
Edith Wharton
#45. If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.
Joshua Radin
#46. My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.
Marjorie Fleming
#47. The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.
Anna Quindlen
#48. The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.
Don DeLillo
#49. Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
Malcolm Forbes
#50. Me, personally, I tell dude 137 how I'm adding an embossed slogan to my dildos. Cast in high-relief going around the base, it's going to say, "The Dick That Killed Cassie Wright ... " On the thickest part, so if you twist it the letters of the writing stimulate the clit.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!
Catharine Sedgwick
#52. As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.
Virginia Woolf
#53. Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?
Judith Martin
#54. Men who write love letters don't live in this century.
Rita Rudner
#55. Originality is little more
than the fine blending of influences.
Teju Cole
#56. Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.
Philip Gulley
#57. I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
George Eliot
#58. A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.
Alice Steinbach
#59. It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.
Elizabeth Drew
#60. F(r)iction is the best of everything we've ever loved. F(r)iction is experimental. F(r)iction is strange. F(r)iction pokes the soft spots, touches nerves most would rather remain protected. F(r)iction is secrets and truths and most importantly - stories. F(r)iction is weird, in every respect.
Tethered By Letters
#61. The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.
John Adams
#62. Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
Isaac Marion
#63. Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.
Lord Chesterfield
#64. Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).
Christopher Hitchens
#65. Little notes, scrawled on half-sheets of paper, and letters, when he was away, page after page, intimate, their news. Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book.
And I had to call him Maxim.
Daphne Du Maurier
#66. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
Sylvia Plath
#67. In my heart, I love books, I love writing. I love the lines of letters on a page.
Jaclyn Dolamore
#68. A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
E.B. White
#69. Sending love letters to first-graders will teach them lessons in cursive. But writing back will test their commitment.
Bauvard
#70. Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.
Tom Hodgkinson
#72. 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.
Jacqueline Woodson
#73. The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#74. You know you're getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox.
Jason E. Hodges
#75. I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days.
Tyson Fury
#76. Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.
Paulo Coelho
#77. Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was "a way out of loneliness."
(NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.)
Jonathan Franzen
#78. What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
Dana Gioia
#79. If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.
Roger Zelazny
#80. I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.
Sara Sheridan
#81. A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#82. I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything.
James Frey
#83. Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
Philip Larkin
#84. I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
Irving Stone
#85. Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.
Virginia Woolf
#86. There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.
Aaron Allston
#87. But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were increasingly mental, and anyway, to the Unconscious, what was death? Dreams did not recognize it.
Saul Bellow
#88. But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.
Edward Abbey
#89. Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.
Ed Seykota
#90. Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.
Edward Gorey
#91. The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
Lewis Carroll
#92. You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
Ada Leverson
#93. People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
Charles Bukowski
#94. The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter,
but something that sits between writing and music
Abdelkebir Khatibi
#95. If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.
Walt Kelly
#96. Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
Philip Larkin
#97. I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.
Joe Walsh
#98. If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Blaise Pascal
#99. To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
David Gerrold
#100. I spend my night writing you love letters;The eraser
Then spend my day
Erasing each, word by word.
Your eyes are my golden compasses;
They point me toward the sea of separation!
(translated from the Arabic by Sivar Qazaz)
Ghada Samman
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