Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.
I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.
Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.
I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
