A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
If you can talk, you can write.
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.