Am Quote by Maya Angelou

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

— Don Winslow

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the…

— Anita Diament

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,…

— Danzy Senna

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

— George Orwell

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

— Warren MacKenzie

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Jack Prelutsky

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

— Don Van Vliet

It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.

— Steven Berkoff

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

— Ashish Sharma

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

“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love it [laughs]…

— Tom Hiddleston

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff