Zitat des Tages über Englischer Bürgermeister / English Major:
I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.
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 with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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 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 was an English major.
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
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.
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
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 consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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.
I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.
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.