Managed Quote by Harold Bloom

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

— Harold Bloom

“Shakespeare doesn't mean: we mean by Shakespeare.”

— Terence Hawkes

“Shakespeare never did this.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

“Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.”

— Marc Norman

“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.”

— Anonymous

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

— John Irving

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas