Lying Quote by Ken Kesey

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

— William Butler Yeats

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

— Chris Cornell

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

— William S. Burroughs

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

— Gary Oldman

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

— Ai Weiwei

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he…

— Stephen Greenblatt

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

— Thomas Carlyle

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you…

— Joseph Epstein

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great…

— Jeremy Irons

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

— Edward Young

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage,…

— Bernard Sahlins