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There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.

You can tell a lot in shorthand.

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 friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.

I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.