Whit Stillman

I can fake decent penmanship, but generally, it's really just terrible. And, unfortunately for me, maybe fortunately for the reader, it's very often illegible. If I get an idea, and if I do remember to write it down, which is rare, I write in such a way that I can't read a letter.

American Director

Russell Smith

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.

Canadian Novelist

Paul Auster

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it's almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

American Author

Anthony Minghella

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

British Director

Shiloh Walker

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Greg Boyle

Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them.

American Clergyman

Often used to describe poor handwriting that's hard to interpret.

Handwriting Context

Use it when print is unclear due to fading, smudging or poor quality.

Print Material

Applies to text in digital form too, like blurry or pixelated images of text.

Digital Texts

 that this large, nearly seven-foot map, made the world look like a giant desert. Until now, we had very little idea, detailed idea, that is, of what Columbus knew of the world and how world cultures were represented. The main legend of the map was entirely illegible under normal light.

How I'm discovering the...

 seeing in three days rise is illegible I don't see those letters there and by the way neither does anyone else some scholars believe that the mystery word can be read not as rise or live but as raise us up he will raise us up is a common ancient Hebrew phrase meaning

The Messiah Before...

 that's the thing right is is that we're writing things we're writing these things that we can no longer read and it's we've we've rendered something kind of illegible and we've lost the sense of what's actually happening in this world

Illegible

Not clear enough to be read.

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Handwriting Context

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Digital Texts

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