I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“Kyle’s shrill voice interrupted their moment. “Figured you two would turn this into a scout meeting. Will you get your asses up… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
“I think it's in Malone Dies that Beckett's creature is in a kind of prison or hospital. As I recall, he is… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am interested in the shape of ideas, even if I do not believe in them” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“You’re not too bad, Finley Sinclair.” I couldn’t have looked away from this boy if the room had caught on fire. “You’re… — Jenny B. Jones Copy Share Image
“If I told you once, I told you a million times: you’re a handsome motherfucker. I’m almost gay for you.” — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“que ferais-je sans ce monde que ferais-je sans ce monde sans visage sans questions où être ne dure qu'un instant où chaque… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“HAMM: Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday! CLOV (violently): That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down,… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“I haven't event started yet Wood! I need time to process... it's not every day hell falls below zero.” — K.Bromberg Copy Share Image
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image