Academic Quote by Jasper Fforde

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

— Margaret Drabble

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

— John Lithgow

I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter…

— Steph McGovern

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing…

— Walter Kirn

The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of…

— Nathan Englander

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

— Anne Stevenson

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

— Paul Theroux

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in…

— Theodore Zeldin

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British…

— Sebastian Coe

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

— Colson Whitehead