Top 1200 Reading Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend everyone edit a literary magazine at some point. It's time-consuming, but there's a lot to learn from other writers who are also learning. The patterns (twelve stories about whales in this batch?) are also interesting.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.

Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

I think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.

I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing the new technologies that were taking over the world, from 3-D printing to space travel. These conversations starting leading us to think of how we could portray these things in a musical way.

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

I'm generally not interested in Shakespeare or 'Broadchurch'. I only want to make people laugh, really.

I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

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

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals and diners, parks, things that we will recognize and experienced ourselves but yet there's this similar kind of uneasiness through all the interactions and all the things that take place. It was unnerving reading the script. I kind of felt nauseous after reading it.

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.