Escape from reality Quote by William S. Burroughs

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

— Virginia Woolf

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

— William Butler Yeats

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

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex…

— Anthony Burgess

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

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

What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation?

— Kelly Asbury

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly…

— T. S. Eliot

“In the real world, writing is not artificially separated into specific discourses. It is blended for effect.”

— Kelly Gallagher

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

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

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