I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox —… — Harley King Copy Share Image
I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can't stress enough that I detest writing, it's something that… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“I was sitting in a plastic desk-chair contraption in an English classroom in Minnesota, tapping out the meter of lines from Pound's… — Kate Hattemer Copy Share Image
“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“... I was disturbed by how many of my classmates disliked Thoreau, railed against him even, as if he (who claimed never… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lindell's English classes are meant to make you think I guess about yourself and people and everything. Some of the kids… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needell Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
I had a really bad blushing problem when I was younger. The first time I ever performed was in an English class.… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
“Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in… — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
“Other than when I got the news about Mom, I can only remember one other time when I cried as an adult,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been sniffing out the guys in my English class (to the extent that this is possible without getting my throat cut),… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This guy tried to kill me, he’s out there, and I’m going to blow his f***ng head off.' Nothing happened for a… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
What I didn't tell her was that I distinctly remember walking out of my junior year English class reading, 'Amandla Stenberg comes… — King Princess Copy Share Image
“I waited till the bell rang for first period, which was English class. When everyone else was out of the hallway, I… — K. A. Applegate Copy Share Image
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also… — Nguyen Qui Duc Copy Share Image
“He even got up once in English class and read an essay called ‘The Value of Friendship’ and while he was reading… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in,… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
“Cade thought about this. “Let me get this straight—you secretly pretend to like poetry to impress the smart girl in your English… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Junior, stop being orner.” It’s what Mama used to say to us when we were little, and I say it to Junior… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Sitting with some of the other members of the Scholastic Decathlon team, quiet, studious Martha Cox heard snatches of the lunchtime poetry.… — Alice Alfonsi Copy Share Image
“When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo… — Annabelle Gurwitch Copy Share Image
“Mark but this Flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; It suck’d me first, and now… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“A cold feeling crept over me, as if there actually was a right or wrong answer to the question. In English class,… — Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
