English language Quote by Matt Haig

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

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

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

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous…

— Steve Antin

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but…

— Rhys Ifans

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than…

— Julia Stiles

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's…

— Alex Cox

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

— Virginia Woolf

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

— Arthur Phillips

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is…

— Al Pacino