Science fiction Quote by Dan Abnett

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

— Edward Hall

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years…

— Michel Faber

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“When we talk about books…we are talking about our approximate recollections of books… What we preserve of the books we read—whether we take notes…

— Pierre Bayard

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

— Christian Cooke

Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

— Kool Keith

“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures —…

— Mark Twain

I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before.

— Michael Rosen

“The room was large and airy. Shelves lined the walls on three sides, shelves that stretched way above his head, bending under the weight…

— Patricia Forde

If we had been doing Shakespeare in doublet and hose for the past 500 years, it might have disappeared.

— Jason Watkins

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond…

— Alexis Denisof

To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer