Shakespeare Quote by Martin Amis

“Like all his attempts at fiction it would be as personal as a letter—painful to those who knew him, of no interest to those…

— Charles Jackson

“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whenever possible, Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, Chief of Clan MacAulay, avoided rooms crowded with Englishmen. They were all babbling gossips with…

— Eloisa James

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

— T. S. Eliot

I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways…

— Harold Bloom

Anybody who tells a very big lie is paid attention to. If you say, 'Shakespeare could not write. He was illiterate,' everybody says, 'Well,…

— Carl Reiner

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't…

— Walter Dean Myers

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

— Virginia Woolf

“They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue." Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.”

— Robin Sloan

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it…

— Simon Callow

You speak an infinite deal of nothing. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

— William Shakespear

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

— Kurt Vonnegut