Basil of Caesarea Quotes

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

I grew up reading a lot on literature and all of that.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I was an English major in college!

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

My master's degree was in English literature.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

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