Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

I'd much rather send my friends letters rather than emails.

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

I'm lucky if I write a letter.

I have never written a letter in my life.

I've never sent an email to anybody. I believe in keeping the postman in work.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

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.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

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.

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.