A Quote by Kenneth Goldsmith

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

Kenneth Goldsmith

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Kenneth Goldsmith
American - Poet
Born: 1961

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

Ian Mcewan

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

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

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

Peter Handke

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

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

Edward Albee

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

Alice Lowe

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.

David Duchovny

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

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.