Words matter. These are the best English Major Quotes from famous people such as P. J. O’Rourke, Paul Giamatti, Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Edwards, Cynthia Nixon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I read good. I was an English major.
I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.
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.
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’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.
I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
I was an English major.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
I had higher math SATs than in English – yet I became an English major in college.
When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.
I was an English major in college!
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.
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.
I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
