Kelly Asbury Quotes

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

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

We take literature too seriously.

You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

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

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in so many ways.

Literature is analysis after the event.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

The title of the movie is open to interpretation.