Acceptance Quote by Walter Raleigh

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

— Ann Patchett

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

— Samuel West

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

— Arthur Phillips

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

— Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

— Sister Souljah

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

— Gary Oldman

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow…

— Samuel West

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 don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

— Mr. T

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 been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

— Joss Whedon