A Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. — © Nathaniel Philbrick
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to heck with it: I'm just going to be an actor. But I'm going to go to school." And he said, "Well, if you're going to go to school, then major in English literature. Those are the tools you are going to be working with as a man who's going to be acting in English, one would assume."
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.
I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history.
I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
I've always been fascinated by history.
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
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