Books Quote by Louis Menand

I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get…

— James Callis

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep…

— Elif Batuman

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told…

— Philip Pullman

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't…

— A. S. Byatt

I enjoy writing, and I know that if I can really focus on that and get some good tuturoing in English, I can be…

— Elijah Wood

I love English and literature.

— Mickie James

“You don’t see the point of English literature?’ ‘I don’t see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?”

— Kate Atkinson

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

— Eniola Aluko

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some…

— William S. Burroughs

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too…

— Meg Cabot

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is…

— Marilyn Butler