Same here! I've tried creative writing but i'm rubbish, doubt I could even manage a short story worth reading. Blackadder said that everbody has one magnum opus in them but I think i'd come up with a Baldrick magnificent octupus instead!
Discussing Shakespeare and Julius Caesar reminded me of my passages of his, I use it as one of my personal codes for life;
Cowards die many times before their deaths
The valiant never taste of death but once
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard
It seems to me most strange that men should fear
Seeing that death, a necessary end
Will come when It will come.
final passage of Julius Caesar Act II Scene II.
The more I read of his works the more in awe I am!
I enjoy creative writing myself. Short stories and the like. I've written Bill Bryson esque travel based short stories on trains (written whilst ON a train) and Kafka esque surrealist stories all for uni. Doing a creative writing prose workshop next year so looking forward to that
And that's a great little extract! Definitely not knocking Shakespeare's writing, he certainly did have a particular 'magic'.
This! Give a kid a Rowling and ask them to read and they would probably seriously consider it, purely due to all the hype that surrounds the Potter books. Give a kid a Pullman novel and they probably wouldn't be as interested.
Not all of them, of course, though.
Ta 
Confused me at first! I was like, oooh, new member. 
