Emily Post Quotes

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

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

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as I do, and might be happy to tag along with me on this search for clarity, for precision. I love that aspect of writing. Nothing makes me happier than to hear a reader say: that’s just what I’ve always felt, but you said it clearly.

How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my despondence, For I've found that correspondence Means that if you want to get 'em, You must write 'em!

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

He who writes badly thinks badly

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

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

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Communication is important.

The written word is everything.

I have no message.

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

I'm lucky if I write a letter.

If You Do Not Write It, You Never Said It

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.