Amherst Quote by Harold E. Varmus

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

— Shelby Foote

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love…

— Andrea Mitchell

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

— Harry Lloyd

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries.…

— Josh Lieb

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later…

— Lev Grossman

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it…

— Alexander Chee

I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums - poems, literature,…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

— Hank Azaria