I’m not sure. Is it the long time it takes to write a good letter, or the fear of baring too much? I know I’m not the only one feeling that way:

“I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.”

John Steinbeck

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“Even when I have to write a simple letter I’m scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.”

Gustav Klimt

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“You will no doubt expect a long letter after so much delay, but I am afraid you will be disappointed, as long letters are not my forte.”

William J. Wills

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“Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter… I am so unlucky.”

Eddie Slovik

And another one, amusing but so true:

“I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.”

Pascal

D.

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Lord Byron

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Phyllis Theroux

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn’t send one.

Goodman Ace