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What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. -- Erin McKean
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. -- Ernest Istook
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. -- Kate DiCamillo
My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children. -- Corin Tucker
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.' -- Jack McDevitt
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. -- James Joyce
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure. -- Natasha Trethewey
My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost. -- Christie Laing
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! -- Philip Pullman
Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. -- Jim Davis
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days. -- Geraldine Brooks
After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband! -- Linda Sue Park
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses. -- Walter Kirn
Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' -- Tom Hooper
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college. -- Henry Petroski
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. -- Khaled Hosseini
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class -- Francine Prose
The way I putted today, I must've been reading the greens in Spanish and putting them in English. -- Homero Blancas
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. -- Albert J. Nock
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well. -- Kevin Gates
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them. -- Haruki Murakami
She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. -- Rainbow Rowell
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished. -- Norman Douglas
It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English. -- George Saunders
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader. -- Matt Wagner
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like. -- Albert Einstein
Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary. -- Li Cunxin

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