“ We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up. Charles Dickens
“ I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him. Sigmund Freud
“ I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. Lewis F. Powell Jr.
“ Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time. Francine Prose
“ Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication. Fennel Hudson
“ Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day. Fennel Hudson
“ To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small paper booklets. Dozens and dozens of them. Booklets made of ordinary sh… Syrie James
