The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… - Elizabeth Drew
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though…
- Elizabeth Drew
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. - Elizabeth Drew
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. - Elizabeth Drew
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It'… - Elizabeth Drew
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It'…
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. - Elizabeth Drew
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaki… - Elizabeth Drew
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaki…
Money buys access; access buys influence. - Elizabeth Drew
Money buys access; access buys influence.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. - Elizabeth Drew
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history. - Elizabeth Drew
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.
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