A Quote by Peter Handke
Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.
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[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.
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.
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.
The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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.
I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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