Saul Kripke Quotes

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

I don't like to think about what school was like for me.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

I have written, and I do write, but the truth is I don't love it. I can't stand the process!

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

I hate writing.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

I found school very boring and frustrating.