Anthony Horowitz Quotes

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

I was a terrible student.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

I was a dummy in school.

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

I skipped school starting in tenth grade. I started doing badly and failed every class but English, so they kicked me out of school. They gave up on me.

I never thrived in high school.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.