Quotes About Correspondence

I turned on my e-mail

Notes of the same key respond to one another; Odors of the same nature merge together. Water flows toward what is wet, Fire rises toward what is dry. Clouds follow dragons; Winds follow tigers.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness

Two hours later there was a longer wire from Winston Churchill

Dear Logan, This is called a letter. It's like an email but written on paper and sent through the regular mail (like bills).

As above, so below, as within, so without

The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were texts into which others were free to enter, or not. Letters, on the other hand, did not exist without the other person, and their very mission, their significance, was the epiphany of the recipient.

je lui écrivis sur-le-champ une lettre enthousiaste

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

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.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

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

I still do get all these letters from people saying they are not pronouncing my name correctly!

We would never comment on private correspondence.

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

Like calls to like.

Dear children far across the sea, How nice of you to write to me. I love to hear the things you say When you are miles and miles away. All children, and I think I'm right, Are nicer when they're out of sight!

When, after a week, Jubal had had no other message, he sent a stat care of Ben's office: What the hell are you doing? Ben's answer came back, somewhat delayed: Studying Martian and the rules for hopscotch -- fraternally yours -- Ben.

very much like us in every important way and

And I wrote you. Volumes. Volumes.

Her vedlægges nu et par dusing skille-tegn som du selv må sitte til hist og her i brevet!

Most people wrote and received no more than a handful of letters a month and seldom felt compelled to reply immediately. Today I receive dozens of emails each day, all from people who expect a prompt reply. We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated.