“Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais." Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot I'm like that. Either… — 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
“If you've never come across Soccer Saturday, imagine a Samuel Beckett play in which a slick circus-master gets four retired clowns to… — Esquire Magazine Copy Share Image
“Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who… — John Barth 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
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… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.” — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it. — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
All of a sudden we were going on school trips, seeing these amazing plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett. My whole… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
We grew up on Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett. You're making something about men on the verge of a nervous breakdown,… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image