Bad Quote by Nick Hornby

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though…

— Ruby Bentall

I was a terrible English student.

— Leon Uris

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

— Jonathan Anderson

English was my worst subject in school.

— Nina Agdal

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Even when a thought springs fresh in my mind on the subway and solves an essay I’d just about abandoned. On the rare occasion…

— Durga Chew-Bose

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

— Danny Wallace

I really miss English. Going into English class and analysing a poem or book, I found that so much fun.

— Ruel

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

— Philip K. Dick

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

— H. L. Mencken

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

— Joss Whedon

You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel.

— Phillip Lopate