I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.