“Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...”
Elizabeth Hardwick
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”
Liz Carpenter
“This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment”
Katherine Mansfield
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.”
Knut Hamsun
“That was their means of communication. Most people wrote letters. Or they kept diaries. They took the time.”
Theresa Salazar
“She lettered as a freshman, and not that many freshman letter for me.”
Mark LaTurner
