I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm…

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

— Mark Twain

“I wanted to write a short letter but I only had time to write a long one… This is not my quote but I…

— Kaye Linden

“I wanted to write you a short letter but I hadnt time…so I wrote you a long one..”

— Conor Lynch

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…

— Zac Efron

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a…

— Samuel Johnson

“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

— Blaise Pascal

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested…

— Giveon

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a…

— Doris Lessing

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I write short stories. I write every day.

— Isaiah Mustafa

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

— Ruskin Bond

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

— Angela Cartwright

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

— Louis Garrel