Beckett Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

— Adrian Dunbar

When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose writing is…

— Michael Craig-Martin

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

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

— Tim Parks

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,…

— Stefan Zweig

“Albert J. Guerard has justly called the story "one of the great dark meditationsin literature, and one of the purest expressions of a melancholy…

— Hunt Hawkins

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

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz