Charming Quote by Harold Pinter

Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.

— Peter Handke

Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800…

— John Larroquette

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett…

— William S. Burroughs

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

— Edward Albee

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

I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he…

— John Larroquette

Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take his advice.

— Adrian Dunbar

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

— Adrian Dunbar

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

— Franz Wright

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

— John Updike