Modern Quote by Ryan North

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

— Robert Wyatt

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

— Robert Graves

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

— Robert Graves

“Hamlet’s soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare. Ah, it’s sublime, sublime! Always fetches the house. I haven’t got it in the…

— Mark Twain

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

— Oscar Isaac

“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed…

— J.R. Partington

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson

“Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— Ken Robinson

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit,…

— Elizabeth Wein

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty