American Quote by Robert Darnton

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

— Robert Darnton

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave…

— Anita Diament

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton

In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as…

— Paul Allen

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

— Paula Broadwell

The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

I was a librarian.

— Beverly Cleary

Absolutely everything I've done - my research, my training, my book - was made possible due to Harvard opening doors and providing me with…

— Fiona Hill

My alma mater was books, a good library.

— Malcolm X

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

— M. H. Abrams

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs