Books Quote by Josephine Tey

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

— Mari Sandoz

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive…

— Maeve Binchy

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 like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

— Elizabeth McGovern

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

— Gregory Mcdonald

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

— Virginia Woolf

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

“Letter writing is a habit that allows us to explore new trails all our lives. Each day is a fresh new adventure when we…

— Alexandra Stoddard

It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To…

— Mary Oliver

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Charles Bukowski