Judy Blume Quotes

Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

Miscommunication leads to complication.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

I'm always in trouble.

Wherever I go, I'm followed by trouble.

If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it.

Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a scribble or clean handwriting or type it, the content remains the same. You want to write in clean hand, in a kind of a clear format only because it is aesthetically pleasing. I can scribble, that's also fine.

I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.