College Quote by Louis Begley

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find…

— Lev Grossman

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

— Seamus Heaney

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

— Robert Darnton

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

— Jonathan Kozol

“Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any other university then in existence. It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the…

— Henry Adams

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

— Robert B. Parker

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

— David Eagleman

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in…

— Philip Warren Anderson

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

— Al Lewis

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick