Books Quote by Lenore Look

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

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“In the works of Shakespeare , the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words,…

— Joseph Devlin

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

— Lauren Hutton

“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

“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures —…

— Mark Twain

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

— Edward Young

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

— Amy Koppelman

An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which…

— Steven Berkoff

“Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of a doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But not a…

— Mark Forsyth

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

— Zoe Wanamaker

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

— H. C. Bunner