Jilly Cooper Quotes

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

Paper is more patient than man.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.