Miranda July Quotes

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

Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have never written a letter in my life.

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

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

It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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.