King-lear Quote by China Miéville

“How pleasant to know Mr Lear!" / Who has written such volumes of stuff! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer / But a…

— Edward Lear

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

— Noel Coward

“In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.”

— Susanna Clarke

“He would read King Lear and forget this filthy century.”

— George Orwell

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

— Louis Auchincloss

“He wanted a James Lear novel: near to constant episodes of sexual encounters strung together with a bit of mystery, and maybe, for window-dressing,…

— Heidi Cullinan

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

— Kenya Barris

“Will set his fork down and began cheerfully, in the manner of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense: "There was once a lass from New…

— Cassandra Clare

“Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment.”

— Ian McEwan

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

— Robert Wilson

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that…

— Helen Mirren