What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.
Erin McKean
I'd love to have been in things like 'The Jewel in the Crown,' but of course they're terribly old English. I can do that. But I'm... →
Julia McKenzie
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
John McWhorter
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan
As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these... →
I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an... →
I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.
Ian Mckellen
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of... →
Ismail Merchant
I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics... →
Philipp Meyer