It was through words I found you. Through words, I reach…

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

— Agnes Repplier

“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were…

— Amélie Nothomb

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my husband, to…

— Delia Sherman

“Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at…

— Jane Austen

“Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.”

— Jane Austen

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

“He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge. He sat down, he took pen and…

— Charlotte Brontë

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and…

— Russell Baker

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

“Harry’s letter to his daughter: If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be a simple truth that took me…

— Harry Browne

I am a slave to my computer. I hate myself when I email. Email is like a dopamine hit,you wait for it and then…

— Michelle Williams

“Andy: But they gave us an out in the Land of Oz. They made us write. They didn't make us write particularly well. And…

— A.R. Gurney

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding…

— Virginia Woolf

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you…

— Neil LaBute