Quotes About Literature

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.

I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums - poems, literature, film, and journalism.

I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

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 me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

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 a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.

I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it was sort of in the middle of me falling deeply in love with literature, and I took a Shakespeare course with a professor who couldn't imagine anything more important than Shakespeare.

Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.