Letter Writing Quotes

• A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

  Lois Wyse

  Writing, Quiet Moments, Waiting

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• Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Solitude, Letters

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• To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Appreciation, Moving

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Mind, Letters

  "The Letters of Emily Dickinson". Book edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.

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• In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

  Anatole Broyard

  Writing, Play, People

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• Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memorial, Literature, Letters

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• Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

  Nick Bantock

  Writing, Long, Letters

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• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

  John Donne

  Love, Romantic, Kissing

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Done, Letters

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

  Jane Austen

  Art, Writing, Paper

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.71, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Writing, Letters, Something New

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.235, Courier Corporation

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

  Agnes Repplier

  Writing, Men, Generosity

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• 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

  Writing, Garden, Rose

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• Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Twenties, Letters

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• 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

  Art, Writing, Receiving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Learning, Usual

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  Pam Brown

  Friendship, Silly, Weather

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• 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

  Real, Writing, Humanity

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

  Joan Frank

  Writing, Luxury, Treasure

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• A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rude, Receiving, Agents

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Water, Doe

  Henry Miller (1952). “The books in my life”, p.216, Рипол Классик

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• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

  George Eliot

  Life, Writing, Letters

  Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8 June 1856

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• In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Men, Mirrors

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.519

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• To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Letters

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.419

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• Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Communication, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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