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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

~A. S. Byatt

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I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.

~Alex Sharp

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I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.

~Alison Owen

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My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.

~Amitabh Bachchan

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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

~Andrea Mitchell

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The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

~Arthur Quiller-Couch

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My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

~Bernie Taupin

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I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

~Brendan Coyle

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I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.

~Caterina Fake

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I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Access English English Literature Finding Just Literature Loved Me Opened Reading Remember School Self-Expression Shakespeare Stories Taken Taking Up Whole World Young I Remember

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