English major Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after…

— Rainbow Rowell

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

— Joe Hill

“And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law…

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing…

— Tom Perrotta

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“...a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

— Michael Cunningham

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

— Chath Piersath

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love…

— Fran Lebowitz