Antonia Thomas Quotes

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.

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.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

I love English and literature.

I have a favorite poem. From Rudyard Kipling. It's called 'L'Envoi.'

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

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

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

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

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

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I love Martin Amis.

My parents are big Shakespeare fans.

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

Shakespeare is universal.