“Miss Birkinshaw was like an old ivory carving, Prudence thought, ageless, immaculate, with lace at her throat. She had been the same… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of… — JJ Feild Copy Share Image
Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie 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
I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“There is scarcely any great author in European literature, old or new, who has not distinguished himself in his treatment of the… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“It seems only fair," Matthew continued. "A bit of karma, if you will." He twirled the stake again. "Shall we see how… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
