Guy Quote by Michael Caine

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

— J R R Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

You can tell a lot in shorthand.

— Jane Goldman

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

— Charles Stross

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

— Nikki Giovanni

What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way…

— Carol Burnett

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that…

— Marc Guggenheim

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.

— Barbara Hale

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say…

— Maeve Binchy

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

— Robert Barry

A short conversation with you is much more important to me that a long conversation with someone else.

— Anonymous