Aunt Quote by Seanan McGuire

I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had…

— Tom Barbash

I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just make Shakespeare…

— Michelle Gomez

I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth'…

— Nick Hornby

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your…

— Samuel West

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

— Derek Walcott

I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age,…

— Quentin Crisp

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be…

— Michael Sheen

“I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from…

— maryrose wood

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you…

— Joseph Epstein

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

— Helen Mirren

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one…

— Gary Giddins