Piers Anthony Quotes

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

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.

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

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

I spend almost every morning with mail.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.

I don't write letters anymore.

Email is the greatest thing.

We can assume that for every 100 people who wanted to say something to their favorite performer, maybe only ten actually got out the stationery. And of those ten, maybe only four get the letter to the mailbox. So, out of all those fans, maybe only four percent are actually sending you anything. And maybe you have read it. Or not.

Everyone loves to get a letter. I love sending them. I love getting them.

I have always been a letter writer, and I found when my numbers got over half a million, I couldn't think about how many people there were out there. I had to think as if I were writing a letter to my brothers and sisters, to my good friends with whom I have had a correspondence since I could hold a pen.

Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.

I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.

Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

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

I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

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.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.