Lana Condor Quotes

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

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

I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.

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.

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

I have written a lot of love letters to the people that I love in my life. It's sweet to be able to keep that, like a tangible letter, and I want to give that to people.

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.

There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.

Boston is always going to be a second home for me.

I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

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

A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read.

I have never written a letter in my life.

When you listen to old-school music, you can smell your mother's food in the kitchen. You can feel where you was when you first heard that song. That's what's beautiful about music. It's for everyone, but we all have individual memories that make us love it.

Podcasting is a personal medium, and I savour those moments where details of the podcasters' lives glint through.

Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time.

Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.

When I'm performing, sometimes a lyric will touch on my personal life, and it can be difficult to sing. For instance, when I sing 'How I Love You,' I'll choke up.