Mat Kearney Quotes

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.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

I was an English major in college!

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

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

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.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

I read good. I was an English major.

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

I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

I was also in love with the English language.

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

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.

My master's degree was in English literature.

In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner's early novels.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

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