English Class Quotes
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?
Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.
