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
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny 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
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.” — John Williams 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
I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen. — Howard Jacobson 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
“At this point I feel I would be remiss to not mention the prevalence of a specific kind of person who enters… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the… — Leslie Stephen 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
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt 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
“- Then whit? - Git a job. Or git oan a scheme. - No gaunnae stey oan n take Highers? - Naw.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books… — Marisa de los Santos 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
“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
