Handwritten Quotes

“By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3

“Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.”
― Richard Peck, Ghosts I Have Been

“The writing, in huge insular majuscule script, is flawless in its regularity and utter control. One can only marvel at the penmanship. It is calligraphic and as exact as printing, and yet it flows and shapes itself into the space available. It sometimes swells and seems to take breath at the ends of lines. The decoration is more extensive and more overwhelming than one could possibly imagine. Virtually every line is embellished with color or ornament.”
― Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

“This book is handwritten because, in its way, it is a love letter, and love letters should not be typeset by compositors or computers.”
― Frederick Franck, The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation

“A letter allows us to travel through time.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3

“I like to send letters. I love to receive them. I could never throw away a letter.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3

“If you dipped a spider in ink and then let it breakdance on a clean sheet of paper, you'd have a fair approximation of the state of my handwriting. I blame the internet myself. If I had to publish things in my handwriting, the only thing I could make money at would be selling ransom notes.”
― Stewart Stafford