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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The present will not long endure.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.