Author Quotes

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.

I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

The thing I’d really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare’s Globe.

I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen.

This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?

A scientist’s life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown.

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.