Ifs Quote by Edward Young

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

— Jeanette Winterson

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling,…

— Mark Helprin

“Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings…

— Louise Erdrich

“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally…

— James Shapiro

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

“One glance he gave, one little smile at parting—it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thought I read, a meaning…

— Anne Brontë

“What is reading, in the last analysis, but an interchange of thought between writer and reader? If the book enters the reader's mind just…

— Edith Wharton

“There’s a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called “Splittings” that I thought of when I read your letter. The…

— Cheryl Strayed

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

— Zadie Smith