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English Major Quotes

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
- Stephen Ambrose

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.
- P C Cast

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
- David Brin

I was an English major.
- Jenna Bush

It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.
- Shelly Crane

MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR. AT LEAST, YOU GET TO READ STUFF THAT'S WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO SEE - TO WHAT MAKES SOMEONE ANGRIEST, OR THE MOST EXCITED IN SOME OTHER WAY. IT'S SO EASY!; I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ENGLISH MAJORS!
- John Irving

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

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

I didn't know shorthand either.
This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter.
The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.
- Sylvia Plath

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

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

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

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

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

I read good. I was an English major.
- P J Orourke

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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