Tom Glazer Quotes

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

I wanted to be a librarian.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

I am proud of what I am. I am a librarian.

I was an English major in college!

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.