Pen Pals Quotes

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

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

I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

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

No one writes each other letters anymore, but I think there's something so special about receiving a really heartfelt letter, still.

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

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.

I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him - he is someone I really like. I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That's enough for me.