Books Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

“I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate.”

— Francesca Lia Block

“If it were really up to me, I would study literature and creative writting. I would major it it, if I really could. But…

— Molly Lynn Robinson

“It’s sweet. Passionate. Appealing to the senses.” Andy sounded serious, like a true critic. “Have you thought of majoring in literature?”

— Nely Cab

“It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many…

— Daniel Schwabauer

“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I could do…

— Dee Williams

“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you…

— Chad Harbach

“I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of…

— Mircea Eliade

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner

“Dad, I know you want me to earn a diploma, but I can do that at any point in my life, what I need…

— Paulo Coelho

“I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.”

— Donald E. McQuinn

“Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want to be.…

— Zachary Frerichs