“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D.… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won't treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In my introduction to Warriors, the first of our crossgenre anthologies, I talked about growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, in the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“After Bailey came Samuel Johnson, His Cantankerousness. Son of a London bookseller, a university dropout, afflicted with depression and what modern doctors… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“There is an important insight contained in the book of Genesis, concerning the loss of eros when the body takes over. Adam… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
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The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature.… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
“Agnes Tattle was the only person he’d ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit.… — Martha Woodroof Copy Share Image
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way… — Marilyn Butler Copy Share Image
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature.… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when… — Parker Harris Copy Share Image
Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.”… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was… — Alex Sharp Copy Share Image
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
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