I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college. — Christie Hefner Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I'm just God m'love, I'm just the English major. I don't know anything.” — Lloyd Dallas Copy Share Image
I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate.” — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's… — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
“I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I like to say I had a very varied undergraduate education. I was an English major first, and then at the end… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“lugging Norton anthologies all over campus like a good English major should. But then the twin towers fell, and a part of… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she liked to read. The university’s “British and American… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR. AT LEAST, YOU GET TO READ STUFF THAT'S WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE! YOU… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I suppose I could have been nicer when I was at Columbia. I could have been polite, respectful, turned in my papers… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“He wanted to know if the master sergeant had read Auden, the twentieth century's most influential Christian poet, "English majors in the… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
“You going back?' he asks. 'Where?' 'College,' he says. 'You plan on going back?' And before she can think of a proper… — Patrick Anderson Jr Copy Share Image
“He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
