A Quote by Edward Albee

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
American - Dramatist
March 12, 1928 - September 16, 2016

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

Edward Albee

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

William S. Burroughs

Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of just Samuel Beckett. By him, about him, in different languages, etc. etc. Notebooks of his, letters of his that I own, personal letters - not to me, but I bought a bunch of correspondence of his. I love his humor, and I'm always blown away by his syntax and his ideas. So I keep reading those.

John Larroquette

Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.

Peter Handke

I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

Barry Humphries

At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again.

David Duchovny

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

John Cameron Mitchell

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.

Terry Teachout

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

Kenneth Goldsmith

I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

Sal Albanese

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

Harold Pinter

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

Val Kilmer

All of a sudden we were going on school trips, seeing these amazing plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett. My whole world went from 'This is really fun' to 'This is fascinating to me'.