Letter Writing Quotes: top 96 famous quotes about Letter Writing

Letter Writing Quotes & Sayings

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Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know — Jann Arden

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back? — Curtis Jackson

I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter. — Matt Smith

Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived. — Thornton Wilder

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter,
but something that sits between writing and music — Abdelkebir Khatibi

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing. — Brendan Behan

Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least ... — Jane Austen

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657) — Blaise Pascal

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

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
[Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857] — Henry David Thoreau

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. — Andre Holland

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self. — Damian Conway

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then? — Prince Philip

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

...but for the Girl Writing A Letter these things don't matter, she's got a beer in her free hand, she's on the road, she's real and she's in love. — William Carpenter

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. — Pico Iyer

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. — Paul Strisik

Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters. — Ed Seykota

Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. — Elizabeth Drew

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside. — Edward Gorey

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Never write a letter and never destroy one. — Cardinal Richelieu

She was writing a letter in her beautiful penmanship, her sentences all like well-made bracelets. — Pat Conroy

I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much. — Daniel Handler

Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. — Jane Austen

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

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter — Baltasar Gracian

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it. — Donald T. Phillips

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. — Lewis Carroll

Real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another. — Agnes Repplier

Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one. — Blaise Pascal

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) — Anton Chekhov

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother, — P. W. Singer

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together. — David Bowie

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. — Sigmund Freud

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. — Ada Leverson

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect. — Kim Edwards

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone. — Henry Miller

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature. — Emily Post

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter. — Sara Sheridan

I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams] — Rachel Weisz

A letter is the most basic - yet the most flexible - mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter. — Scribendi

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none. — Emily Post

Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years. — J.E. Negrete

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary. — Simon Pegg

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. — Joshua Chamberlain

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers. — Cleveland Amory

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel — Haruki Murakami

I folded Lizzie into small pieces. But the letters did not stop. — Sarah Schmidt

By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone. — Fennel Hudson

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan. — Fennel Hudson

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner. — Dorothy Wordsworth

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight. — Virginia Woolf

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts — Nick Bantock

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive. — Sara Sheridan

One single letter cures the blank page. — Stephanie Ayers

Writing this letter is like putting a note in a bottle
And hoping
It will reach Japan. — Alice Munro

Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly. — Scribendi

Never write a letter while you are angry. — Jimi Hendrix

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes. — Cole Porter

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend. — Billy Strayhorn

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. — George Gordon Byron

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love. — Honore De Balzac

Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. — Craig Ferguson

In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be. — Diana Peterfreund

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) — D.H. Lawrence

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. — Samuel McChord Crothers

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! — John A. Macdonald

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future. — Iris Murdoch

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter. — Harold Macmillan

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read. — Walt Kelly

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922] — Franz Kafka

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. — Peyton Manning

There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine. — Edith Wharton

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway,

If you can't make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter. — Bret Easton Ellis

I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead. — Mark Twain

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. — Blaise Pascal

A letter allows us to travel through time. — Fennel Hudson

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger. — Mary Matalin

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter. — Julia Bell

When you write something down, it stays forever.It's like a little part of you that you're giving to the universe — Emma Abdullah

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine! — Susan Lendroth

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. — Emily Dickinson

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself. — Susan Sontag

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop. — Sara Sheridan

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. — Paul Stanley

For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I. — Michael A. Arnzen