English Class Quotes

23 quotes by 20 authors

Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear… — Megan McArdle
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at… — J. Courtney Sullivan
You donâ€™t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebodyâ€™s English class,… — Ken Robinson
At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war… — Nguyen Qui Duc
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class — Francine Prose
Iâ€™ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the… — John Taylor Gatto
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. — Scott Westerfeld
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot… — Libba Bray
I translated Beatles songs for my English class. — Christian Lacroix
If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class. — Seth Rogen
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class. — Joss Whedon
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show upâ€”Ho-HO! Now youâ€™ve got something that stirs the, um,… — Libba Bray
I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that… — Dan Chaon
It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I… — James Frey
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. — Malcolm Gladwell
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works-- groundbreaking,… — Libba Bray
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just… — Alison Bechdel
I've been sniffing out the guys in my English class (to the extent that this is possible without getting my throat cut), but they smell… — Jaclyn Moriarty
I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried. — Shelley Hennig
I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was… — Bill Cosby

Who Wrote These English Class Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 23 English Class Quotes as follows: