Composition Quote by Seamus Heaney

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

— Seamus Heaney

I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for…

— Gabrielle Zevin

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

— John Paulson

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

I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On…

— Alexandra Petri

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

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

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

— Alan Dershowitz

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could…

— John Updike

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when…

— Tyler Winklevoss

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong