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I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.

~Alan Furst

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I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.

~Carrie Coon

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When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college, I was an English major, and then I became a fine artist. But when I arrived in San Francisco in 1995, I figured I could leverage my artistic skills by becoming a Web designer and programmer.

~Caterina Fake

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I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

~Christie Hefner

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I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

~Cynthia Nixon

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I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

~Cynthia Nixon

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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.

~Elizabeth Edwards

Topics: Carolina College English English Major Graduate Graduate School Major North North Carolina School Then Three University Years

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I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

~Fred Savage

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