Education Quote by James Payn

English culture is highly literary-based.

— Peter Greenaway

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English…

— Winston Churchill

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet…

— Will Self

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're…

— Billy Collins

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

— James Payn

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

— Romain Gary

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period…

— Sylvia Plath

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

— Mick Jagger

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You…

— Rebecca West