Contemplating Quote by Joan Frank

A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to…

— Alice Steinbach

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

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is…

— Emily Post

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact…

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Mari Sandoz

“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

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

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

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when…

— May Sarton

Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They…

— Josephine Tey

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

“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