I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.
You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Even my trolls have started taking the trouble to spell their Tweets correctly, which is thoughtful.
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.
I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.
'Spell it Out' rose to be number 4 on the best-selling Amazon chart - ahead of 'Fifty Shades of Grey!' Who ever would have thought that spelling would one day beat sex - even if it was for only a few hours!
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
I had one of those farcical bar mitzvahs where they spell out the words phonetically on index cards, and you don't even know what you're saying.
I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.
I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
