Short Letter Quotes

#1. I wanted to write a short letter but I only had time to write a long one....

This is not my quote but I can't remember who said it...anyone know?

Kaye Linden

#2. I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead.

Mark Twain

#3. I understood that I was clearly insane. But he apparently hadn't picked up on how many times in one short letter I asserted that I was not. This acceptance of my questionable mental health made me feel confident that we would be compatible, possibly for life. I

Augusten Burroughs

#4. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Mark Twain

#5. A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'

Zac Efron

#6. A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

Samuel Johnson

#7. A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.

Andrea Brown

#8. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

J.A. Redmerski

#9. My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'

Annie Besant

#10. A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.

John Banville

#12. As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]

Thomas Jefferson

#13. She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper

Travel Schedule

#14. Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
[Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857]

Henry David Thoreau

#15. I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it.

Jess Walter

#16. Learning is one letter short of maturity.

Eddie Mhone

#17. Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Blaise Pascal

#18. Anger is one letter short of danger.

Eleanor Roosevelt