Beckett Quote by David Duchovny

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

— Garth Greenwell

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

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

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

“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and…

— Dorothy Allison

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world,…

— Shane Smith

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

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about.

— Adrian Dunbar

“Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures…

— Virginia Woolf

“If you’re not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don’t write. But beware, if you’re a writer who does…

— Jason E. Hodges