“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
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
In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B.… — C. V. Raman 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
“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
“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
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
“You wore Doc Martens and purple hair. I wore my insecurity on a button-up. it wasn't meant to be. But then the… — Allison Raskin Copy Share Image
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or… — Robert Graves 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’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature.… — Libba Bray 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
“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
“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
“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
“We have The Idylls of the King in English class this term. I like some things in them, but I detest Tennyson's… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“In English class, someone flung a folded-up square of notebook paper onto the floor next to my right foot. I picked it… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain… — David McCullough 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
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on… — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Copy Share Image
If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out.… — Charles Forsman 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
“I'm writing haiku. Not for English class but just because. It turns out swearing off poetry doesn't work the way swearing off… — Sarah Dooley Copy Share Image
“Aren't you in my Science class?" Shayna/Shayla asks. "English," I correct her. She shoots me a condescending look. "I did speak English,"… — Colleen Hoover 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
I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions… — Dennis Haysbert 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
“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
“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“So,if it's all love or money, which is Alex Bainbridge?" I blinked at him. "What?" "He's a turd, Ella. He looked right… — Melissa Jensen 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
“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
“All I could determine was that it must have been a nice thing to see if it was a house you were… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
My passion in life is knowledge let it be learning something at school to learning how to fight from when I was… — Michael Country 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
“In the trenches of the First World War, English men came to love one another decently, without shame or make-believe, under the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
