Electronic Quote by Robert Darnton

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

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in…

— Floyd Cooper

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

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people…

— Kenneth Fisher

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 have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting…

— Viggo Mortensen

I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing…

— David McCullough

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

— John Van Hamersveld

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

I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for…

— John Battelle

I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books have sold…

— William Gurstelle

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

— Richard Curtis