Quotes About Handwriting

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

Elizabethans were as free with their handwriting as they were with their spelling. Handbooks of handwriting suggested up to twenty different—often very different—ways of shaping particular letters.

When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.

There's a lot of power in handwriting a note, and business travelers have a ton of time to do that when they're sitting in airports or on flights.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

He would know her handwriting anywhere.

She had never lost that childhood pleasure in seeing pages covered in her own handwriting.

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.

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.

That evening, Hope wrote a letter to her MP, Jack Crow. She found no difficulty at all in composing it, but quite a bit in writing it. She hadn't hand-written an entire page since primary school. In the end she found an app on her glasses that sampled her handwriting and turned it into a font that looked like her handwriting would if it had been regular, and printed it off. There was even an app for the printer that indented the paper a little, and an ink that looked like ballpoint ink.

the end of each of these brainstorming sessions I require myself to formally record the results, by hand, on a dated page.

You might've got a letter, and it might have been in her handwriting, but I'm prepared to bet you my front teeth in a simple platinum setting that Judy wrote it, for reasons so obvious they're visible from orbit.

Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand.

I have horrible handwriting, horrible spelling and horrible grammar.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

As she read and reread the note scrawled in Janie's riotously looping hand, she understood that she was holding one of those rare objects brought into being by a hope you didn't know you still had.

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.