I think of science fiction as being part of the great…

Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature…

— J. K. Rowling

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

— James Delingpole

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my…

— Felicity Jones

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate…

— Lynne Tillman

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could…

— Tom Riley

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

— James Connolly

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— Russell Baker

“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite fresh and,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.”

— Harper Lee

“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to…

— Steven Pinker

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English…

— Winston Churchill

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is…

— Northrop Frye

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan