Quotes About Inspiration

It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

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

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

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.

I cut school to read Shakespeare and to learn about that because, for the first time, I felt like I really discovered a passion - the passion of my life.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

No shame in losing to an all-time great.

When it comes to history I am shameless. I will do whatever it takes to get people involved.

Our literature is in great shape.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.