I went to school for theater and English literature.

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

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

— Glen Duncan

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

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

“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time…

— Phillip Hoose