Quotes About Literature

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

Shakespeare examines how democracy is built.

Our literature is in great shape.

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.

I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

I've always written short stories.