I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Source: From Notebook 16. Quoted in: The Collected Works of J. M. Synge, vol. 1, Introduction (1962).
-- J M Synge, ( 1871-1909), Irish poet and dramatist; Intense and poetic in style, his works depict the bleak and tragic lives of Irish peasants and fisherfolk.