About Quote by Adrian Dunbar

“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.”

— Tim Parks

“There was a poem, she said, by Beckett that he had written twice, once in French and once in English, as if to prove…

— Rachel Cusk

“And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, ‘So you’ve come to demonstrate that it…

— Tim Parks

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

— Harold Pinter

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…

— Harold Pinter

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.

— Edward Albee

At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about…

— David Duchovny

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like…

— Simon Critchley

“Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit far-fetched. But…

— Frank McCourt

“In a sense, Joyce was Beckett's Don Quixote, and Beckett was his Sancho Panza. Joyce aspired to the One; Beckett encapsulated the fragmented many.…

— Lois Gordon