“Something written by hand brings a singular human presence that the typewriter or the computer cannot.” Quindlen was a journalist. She’s a Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist. But this book is quite simply a love letter to writing, in all of its forms: the grade school assignments, the letters to loved ones—the writing that belongs to all of us, no matter what title we hold. It’s inspiring me to start hand-writing more notes, and to take more joy in my journals and stories.