Air Quote by Donna Tartt

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

— Aleister Crowley

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'

— Sarah Palin

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is…

— James Avery

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual.

— Geraldine James

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English…

— Winston Churchill

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

— Henry Norman Hudson

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the…

— Matt Haig

English culture is highly literary-based.

— Peter Greenaway