Elizabeth Drew Quotes

A collection of quotes by Elizabeth Drew.

Elizabeth Drew is an American journalist and author, known for her insightful political commentary. Born on November 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio, she has contributed to numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. Drew has written several books on American politics, offering a unique perspective on the inner workings of Washington, D.C. She has received accolades for her investigative reporting and has been a prominent voice in American journalism for decades.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthe

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our

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.

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to

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's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.

How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters

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 it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

Letters (writing)

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

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

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves l

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

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely len

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.