"Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes" — Joseph Joubert

More Letter Writing Quotes

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• Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media… — Russell Baker
• I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him… — Sigmund Freud
• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to… — George Eliot
• This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours… — Anthony Trollope
• Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts — Nick Bantock
• In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to… — Anatole Broyard
• If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence.… — Elizabeth McGovern
• I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. — Lord Byron
• A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. — Emily Dickinson
• I am a slave to my computer. I hate myself when I email. Email is like a dopamine hit,you wait… — Michelle Williams

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