Prunella Scales Quotes

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

I find words really hard.

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

There is no more important foundational skill than reading.

My English is very bad.

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

I was a terrible English student.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

I was also in love with the English language.

I'm not very good at standard English.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

English was my worst subject in school.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.

The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and don't see the connection there, and I've always felt like you're more able to communicate if you have a bigger toolbox to work with.