“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.” — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
“The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“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
“The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.” — David Herbert Lawrence 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
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
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 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
“Vitamin C is the world’s best natural antibiotic, antiviral, antitoxin and antihistamine. This book’s recurring emphasis on vitamin C might suggest that… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the… — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature. — Jed Mercurio 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
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
