Life Quote by Jean Webster

“What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

— Robert Graves

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

— Robert Graves

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

— Robert Graves

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

— Christopher Isherwood

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

— John Irving

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And…

— Howard Jacobson

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

— Virginia Woolf

“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