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
“If there’s got to be a future for humanity, there’ll have to be a very big change from what now is.” — David Herbert Lawrence 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
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
“Bad is the world, and all will come to naught when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.” — William Shakespeare 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
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
“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
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
“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.” — Chris Priestley 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
“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
“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
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 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 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
