Dick Schaap Quotes

I love English and literature.

I was a terrible English student.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

I find words really hard.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

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.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

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.

My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.

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 read good. I was an English major.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

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.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.

I was an English major in college!

The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.