Top 30 Handwriting Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Handwriting Quotes from famous people such as Devendra Banhart, Patti Smith, Susan Straight, Pam Shriver, Michael Morpurgo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I do have very small handwriting.

I do have very small handwriting.
Devendra Banhart
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
Patti Smith
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
Susan Straight
I have horrible handwriting, horrible spelling and horrible grammar.
Pam Shriver
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.
Michael Morpurgo
Seeing my father’s handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.
John Carter Cash
The drawings in ‘Portal’ were actually me scribbling that stuff… I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten ‘The cake is a lie’ tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That… that’s odd.
Kim Swift
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.
Sloane Crosley
I use my computer to take notes more and more because my handwriting is so bad. I’m a lefty and it’s getting worse and worse.
Maggie Haberman
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.
Meghan Markle
You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.
Pete Doherty
I never did calligraphy… But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It’s part of the syndrome of modernism… It’s part of that asceticism.
Paul Rand
You may not be able to read a doctor’s handwriting and prescription, but you’ll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
Earl Wilson
I’ve always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn’t decide which one I liked best.
Lianne La Havas
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.
Meghan Daum
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it’s done in handwriting.
Nelson DeMille
I’m a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.
Tavi Gevinson
I certainly think there are some skills we’ll lose as we hand things over to automation. I can barely remember my own phone number now, let alone the long list of numbers I used to know, and my handwriting has completely gone to pot.
Hannah Fry
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That’s kind of what I did.
Shawn Mendes
The handwriting is on the wall: if you want to have your franchises viable, then you can’t have a situation where New York and Chicago and Los Angeles are doing very, very well, and some other teams are, but, I would say, a significant percentage of the teams in our league are struggling financially.
Michael Heisley
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.
Andrew Greeley
I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time.
George Eads
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
Joyce Carol Oates
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
Linwood Barclay
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.
Mark Schlereth
Handwriting challenges aside, I love paper cards. I love the endless stewing involved in picking them out at the store. I love buying holiday stamps at the post office, and I love that ‘whoosh’ sound the cards make when I drop them into the mail slot.
Meghan Daum
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I’d put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn’t actually know how to write.
Joyce Carol Oates
A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai Stevenson I
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I’ve waited all my life for the computer.
Janet Fitch