“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

“I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”

Celia Green (1935) British philosopher

“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-British politician, playwright and writer

“Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film. It is just one of the things that crazy people want to do, like starting a law suit or sending long, unsolicited letters to people in the public eye. A letter from a nutter has a recognisable format and orthography, as if all letter-writing nutters have to go through some kind of Top Gun nutter-letter-writing academy.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

“If there is only one person who has the right to write the story of your life, that person is you: write it forcefully.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“Early in my public labors I was bidden by the Lord, "Write, write the things that are revealed to you." At the time this message came to me, I could not hold my hand steady. My physical condition made it impossible for me to write. But again came the word, "Write the things that are revealed to you." I obeyed; and as the result it was not long before I could write page after page with comparative ease. Who told me what to write? Who steadied my right hand, and made it possible for me to use a pen?”

Ellen G. White (1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church