Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

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.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

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.

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

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

I was a pen pal with one guy, a long time ago. I think we only wrote to each other twice. We didn't really keep it up that long. But, I love it. I think it's really sweet and very creative and freeing, when you get to put a pen to paper, 'cause you don't really do it that much these days, with all this technology.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

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.

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

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

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

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.

I'm lucky if I write a letter.

When he [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] advised millions of listeners in one of his fireside chats to “tell me your troubles”, most of them believed implicitly that he was speaking to them personally and immediately wrote him a letter. It was months before we managed to swim out of the flood of mail.

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

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

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

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