Body Quote by Ira Glass

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

— Gloria Gaither

I studied French and English literature because I liked it.

— Chris de Burgh

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they…

— Ira Glass

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French…

— Lev Grossman

I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went…

— J. K. Rowling

Indeed, I still read a fair amount of French literature and I am very attracted to the emotional depth and simplicity of writers such…

— Carol Drinkwater

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

— Jonathan Kozol

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my…

— Emmanuelle Charpentier

I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went…

— Nick Kroll

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus