Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

I was always the bad student.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

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

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

I wasn't good at school.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

I was a dummy in school.

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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 was a horrible student.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

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.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

I was a very bad student... I was ahead in many things, but when the time came to study, I just made a face and used to feel bad that I had to study.

In high school, I was a poor student.

I was not a great student.

I was a terrible student.