Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
Source: Letter, 16 Nov 1867.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.