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