Ron Rash Quotes

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

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 English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

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

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.