Time Quote by Erik Larson

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police.…

— Josephine Tey

“Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten…

— Nancy Reagan

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

— Charles Bukowski

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And…

— Dylan Thomas

“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I…

— Saul Bellow

“Week after week we were reduced to starting the same letter over again and copying out the same appeals, so that after a certain…

— Albert Camus

“The rest of the letters were pretty much the same as I got every day now. Two hundred and forty-six proposals, a number of…

— Kenneth Patchen

“welcome antidote to the speed of modern life. By their very nature, letters allow for more consideration of the words and thoughts that someone…

— Elizabeth Berg

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…

— Brooks Atkinson