Books Quote by Eliza Gubbins

“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.”

— Amanda Craig

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while, should take…

— Sōseki Natsume

“The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the…

— David Sedaris

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in…

— Charlotte Mason

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.”

— Jim Harrison

“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children…

— Elizabeth Knox