Age Quote by Anatole Broyard

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

— Isaac Marion

Some people write to remember, some people write to forget.

— Needa Muy

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and…

— George Steiner

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure…

— Nancy Reagan

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.

— Tim Vine

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

— Judith Martin

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are…

— Joel Chandler Harris

Write what should not be forgotten.

— Isabel Allende