Traditional Communication Quotes

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.

I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

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.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

I clearly remember what it was like before Facebook and before cellphones. They didn't have any of that when I was in high school.

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.

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

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the culture there is, you go to the pub and talk to people there, and that's how you get the news and all the gossip. You just do it face to face. And culturally, you just couldn't understand.

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

I send thank you notes, not emails, even if I'm staying at a friend's house or something. I'm very old school.

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.

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

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

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

I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.

I'm not a real big text guy. I'm not really into this new age stuff. I don't twit or tweet, but I think face-to-face is a man thing.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

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.