About Quote by Robert Darnton

I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided…

— David Liss

I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch with Lori…

— Patricia Leavy

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

— Jonathan Kozol

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was…

— Robert Darnton

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

— Charles J. Shields

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical…

— Hilary Mantel

I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read stacks of…

— Julie Klassen

I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war…

— Gary Paulsen

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my…

— Richard Dawkins

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

— Miriam Margolyes

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

— Susan Holloway Scott