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

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

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

- Elizabeth Drew

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

- 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'…

- Elizabeth Drew

Money buys access; access buys influence.

- Elizabeth Drew

Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs …

- Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

- Elizabeth Drew

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

- Elizabeth Drew