It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a… — David Crystal

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. — David Crystal
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. — David Crystal
At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject. — David Crystal