Melissa Bank Quotes

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

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

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

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

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

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.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

My master's degree was in English literature.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.

I read good. I was an English major.

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

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

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

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

I was an English major in college!