Has beens Quote by William Butler Yeats

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

— William S. Burroughs

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

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

— Ken Kesey

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Virginia Woolf

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the…

— Matt Haig

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

— Henry Norman Hudson

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Gary Oldman

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

— Steven Wright

All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we know about…

— John Irving