Big fan Quote by E. Lockhart

“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you…

— Lev Grossman

I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start…

— David Duchovny

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

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

— Adrian Dunbar

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“But as attractive as a tropical island alone with Eve might be, Beckett knew he could never go. He couldn’t be that far from…

— Debra Anastasia

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme.”

— John Hawkes

“I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.”

— John Green

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.”

— Erin Kellison

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