Rabih Alameddine Quotes

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

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

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

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

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

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

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.'

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.