Answers Quote by George Eliot

“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

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

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

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has…

— Henry Miller

writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.

— Mari Sandoz

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

— Anonymous

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer…

— Robert Benchley

A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own…

— Haruki Murakami

I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem…

— Rose Macaulay

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's…

— Elizabeth Bishop