Meant to be Quote by Barbara Hale

I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain…

— Sylvia Plath

Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

— Elvis Costello

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

— Mark Twain

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.

— Chris Bohjalian

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

— Bertrand Russell

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

— Robertson Davies

You can tell a lot in shorthand.

— Jane Goldman

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…

— Joe Lo Truglio

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

— Blaise Pascal

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

— Lisa Jewell

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

— George Orwell

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

— Anonymous