Taylor Swift likes writing letters to people.

Speaking in the November issue of the US' Esquire magazine, she

explained: "I love writing thank you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper.

"How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore? There's something romantic and sort of lost about [writing a letter].

"I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there."

Meanwhile, the 'Shake it Off' hitmaker, who has previously been linked to Harry Styles, Jake Gyllenhaal and John Mayer, is planning to stay single for a while because she finds publicised relationships stressful.

She said previously: "I get stressed when I think about getting into a relationship because I get beat up in the press whenever I go near a boy. So you can understand why I am taking a bit of a break. A relationship is not in my brain right now."