“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee 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
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
“Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests. — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada 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
“You don’t see the point of English literature?’ ‘I don’t see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?” — Kate Atkinson 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
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 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
“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
Under Milk Wood' was given to me when I was quite young, in Sydney. I didn't even know what Wales was, let… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered… — Benjamin Clementine 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
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 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
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 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
I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to… — Keith Carradine 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
“School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I like to take things as they come and, as much as possible, not force anything. I think I could wind up… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
“John Milton has, since his own lifetime, always been one of the major figures in English literature, but his reputation has changed… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“There she sits in the corner of the carriage—that carriage which is travelling, not from Richmond to Waterloo, but from one age… — Virginia Woolf 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
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent - Dear to the Loves,… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“A college student who wants to file a complaint of sexual assault within the campus disciplinary system informs a university employee such… — David E. Bernstein 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
'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
