“West Country novelist Thomas Hardy almost did not survive his birth in 1840 because everyone thought he was stillborn. He did not… — Phil Mason Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“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
We had a 'Project Joey' scheme worked out in which I would take correspondence courses while acting in Hollywood. Then when I… — Joey Heatherton 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
“All illustrate the “theory of courage,” which Tolkien called “the great contribution of early Northern literature,” meaning both Icelandic and Old English… — Nancy Marie Brown Copy Share Image
“The blond stuffs her hairbrush, which is now spun with gold and black silk (a miniature angel's nest) back into her backpack… — Laura Kasischke 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
“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
“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
“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.” — Chris Priestley 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
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
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 have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton 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 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 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
“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Tolkien believed doggedly in the old-fashioned notion that the purpose of philology was to read literature and that literature couldn’t be properly… — Wyatt North Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum 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
“I first met Winston Churchill in the early summer of 1906 at a dinner party to which I went as a very… — Violet Bonham Carter 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
“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
