Being Quote by J. G. Ballard

Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature…

— J. K. Rowling

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

— James Delingpole

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my…

— Felicity Jones

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate…

— Lynne Tillman

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could…

— Tom Riley

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

— James Connolly

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— Russell Baker

“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite fresh and,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.”

— Harper Lee

“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to…

— Steven Pinker