Book Quote by Lauren Hutton

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

“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?”

— Lenore Look

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

— Edward Young

“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer…

— Irving Stone

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

“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.”

— Adam Langer

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

— William F. Buckley, Jr

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

— Victor Hugo

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

— Hari Kunzru

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

— Virginia Woolf

Do you really not know who wrote Romeo and Shakespeare?

— Richard