1960s Quote by John Banville

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

— Adrian Dunbar

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Tim Parks

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

“Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.”

— William Dunham

“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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself…

— G.H. Hardy

“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting.…

— John Barth