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I was, am , severely dyslexic and couldn't spell, still can't spell. So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed.


Fannie Flagg

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I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
ZANE GREY Autumn casts a spell and dying never was so beautiful.
AMELIA DASHWOOD Raven stared up at his face, drinking in the strong lines and the way he looked at her with somethin...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN It was an incredible spell from Glenn, no question,
JOHN BUCHANAN I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
ZANE GREY Because I stuttered, my aunt told me I had to learn to spell, and spell very well,
CHUCK ALLEN Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without mea...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I can't spell Dell, but I can spell hell, and he might be there one of these days,
ROBERT MUGABE I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematic...
RAHA MOHARRAK It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. Bu...
RACHEL COHN I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
JESSYE NORMAN I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot ...
RICK RIORDAN From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ...
PETRA COLLINS I have learned To spell hors d'oeuvres, Which still grates on Some people's n'oeuvres
WARREN KNOX I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not...
JAMES FALLOWS I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag...
LIONEL SUGGS I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
MARK TWAIN I want you to break the spell. Finish it off.”
"What do you mean?”
"The spell you did ...
RICHELLE MEAD Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR Well, that's it...I can't spell.
BETTY THOMAS How long have you known me, Jack? And you 'still' can't spell my name.
YOGI BERRA Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE If an S and an I and an O and a U - With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I...
CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn’t think being able to spell orgasm without being spot...
SUMMER DANIELS And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make ...
KATE DICAMILLO Children spell love... T-I-M-E.
DR. ANTHONY P. WITHAM I thought it was overall good competition, but the cool weather and the wind did not cooperate with ...
BRIAN COLDING I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I j...
CASSADEE POPE Lot of improve, so we have people from the audience that come up and spell. Lot of fun doing that.
BILL LARKIN I am not willing to risk the lives of German soldiers for countries whose names we cannot spell prop...
VOLKER RUHE Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast
KAREN FOXLEE Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING Tabitha was trying to shut Mrs. Wallace up, because she was just blabbering and blabbering. But [the...
KATHLEEN NOONE Tabitha was trying to shut Mrs. Wallace up, because she was just blabbering and blabbering, ... But ...
KATHLEEN NOONE I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I You figure out what it is and then you spell it phonetically on your sheets. So the only way I read ...
MIKE KEITH I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies ...
SUN YAT-SEN Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be on...
SHARAD PAWAR I was a dyslexic kid.
CAITLYN JENNER With knot of one, the spell's begun.
With knot of two, the spell be true.
With knot of thr...
DEBORAH HARKNESS Nat, how do you spell orgasm?"
"You don't spell it, you feel it
KRISTEN PROBY But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I sent my soul through the invisible,some letter of that afterlife to spell;and by and by my soul re...
OMAR KHAYYAM I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman ...
OPRAH WINFREY It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly...
CORNELIA FUNKE How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh
A.A. MILNE Piglet: "Pooh, how do you spell love?" Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel it."
WINNIE THE POOH If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
BEVERLY CLEARY I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people jus...
TIM CONWAY I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where...
RICHARD SIMMONS If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
DAN QUAYLE You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.
A.A. MILNE I am tired yet cannot sleep I am hungry but cant eat I am dreaming whilst still awake I am nothing w...
FEMALE IMAGINATION When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo ar...
LIZZO I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like...
CAROLINE LELAND You Can't Spell 'Star' Without A&R.
RONNIE VANNUCCI lines and angles, flat and bland,
raise these volumes and make them stand.
JAMES MOLONEY One crying spell a day, & soon I will have gone insane.
JILLIAN JOYCE AARSVOLD I can't forget you,..., it's like a spell casted on me
MINU-TSHYETO K. BIDZIMOU My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she though...
ROBERTO BENIGNI with every new day, Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as spider's...
CORNELIA FUNKE I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
SALLY RAND You cannot spell prosperity, without i-s and p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y
BRADLEY J. HARRISON I sent my soul through the invisible,
some letter of that afterlife to spell;
and by and by ...
OMAR KHAYYAM I was still tired from yesterday's match. But I am through and that counts.
MARIANO ZABALETA Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS We know from inspections carried out on the entire pipeline and throughout Westport that we do not h...
BULLER MAYOR MARTIN SAWYERS I am trapped in my skin, it itches, and is so hollow.
I cant breathe.
GEORIGANA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
EMILY DICKINSON Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it p...
JENNIFER PAYNTER I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
ALEC BALDWIN But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program.
BILL JOY I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by an...
OMAR KHAYYáM I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, v...
DICK SCHAAP These things are usually just a laundry list. Whether it was Clinton or Bush, it's mostly just what'...
CHESTER SPELL But the HSA isn't a new idea. It's been compared to an IRA for health insurance.
CHESTER SPELL Anytime a deputy discharges his weapon, a deputy involved shooting, we have a set policy we go throu...
STEPHANIE SPELL Bush campaign aides are taking political spin to a new level. Yesterday, they had to invent phone ca...
KYM SPELL Al Gore, unlike George Bush, is not afraid to disagree with his friends.
KYM SPELL Any argument that he comes up with that we are not dedicating the resources needed for our military ...
KYM SPELL I would say to those people, there's going to be one of two people who win this election. It's eithe...
KYM SPELL The fact is Gov. Bush's plan would leave the Social Security Commission only two choices: insolvency...
KYM SPELL It's a beautiful building -- beautiful hardwood floors, old exposed beams. But it would take quite a...
LARRY SPELL It's not going to be years, it's going to be months. Once that is done, the building will be vacated...
LARRY SPELL Some of these problems are the result of planning decisions made decades ago.
LARRY SPELL I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.
LARRY SPELL The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, j...
SUSANNA CLARKE Better than brothers. And on my driver's license, my Social Security card, everything. Most people w...
U.Z. BRIDGES I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing film...
STEVEN WRIGHT (Bachelet) wasn't perfect ... her smile was reserved, she was firm on one or two basic points. Nothi...
CARLOS PENA He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE Every spell is a journey.
LAWREN LEO

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