Paul McCartney Quotes

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

I was an English major in college!

The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she's not.

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

There's no literary merit in my books.

I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.

I read good. I was an English major.

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

Clarity is so important for Shakespeare.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it will not rank as one of the great autobiographies.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep your love of literature pure. I think that's kind of silly.

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it was sort of in the middle of me falling deeply in love with literature, and I took a Shakespeare course with a professor who couldn't imagine anything more important than Shakespeare.

Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on its feet.

I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.

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