Samuel West

“Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.”

“When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.”

“Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.”