“As Hemingway wrote to Fitzgerald, describing the act of letter-writing: “Such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something” WritingLettersProductivityFitzgeraldHemingwayngway Book:At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays Source: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
“E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.” WorldCitiesModernInternetLettersRatePostsMailPennies Author:Anne Fadiman
“It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.” IfsWaitingPsychologyWrittenExampleLettersNotesConvincedDecemberFebruaryOld ThingsPunctualityTruismMiddlemarchThank You Note Author:Anne Fadiman
