Quotes Stephen Greenblatt

But I never listen to music while I'm writing....

But I wanted to make a claim: the claim here is that life is...

But if it doesn't have pleasure and interest, then it does n...

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth,...

But the trick of holding off and having all the pieces come ...

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He...

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of w...

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but ...

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare...

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare...

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What...

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. Th...

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life...

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've be...

In junior high school, I found As You Like It quite possibly...

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy...

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyt...

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered...

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Sha...

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's a...

Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in...

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch ...

What matters here are the works - finally without them his l...

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most rema...