Louis Begley Quotes

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

I was an English major in college!

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

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

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

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

My master's degree was in English literature.

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.

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

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

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

I studied French and English literature because I liked it.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

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

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

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

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

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

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

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

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

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.