August Quote by Lev Grossman

“Fill in the blanks, you’d have a novel; keep it short and it’s a play by Beckett.”

— Stephen Dobyns

“There was a poem, she said, by Beckett that he had written twice, once in French and once in English, as if to prove…

— Rachel Cusk

“He tried not to think about his Grandma’s opinion of whores and drugs. He could only believe in the pattern he’d learned from Beckett—a…

— Debra Anastasia

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

— Tim Parks

“In his head Beckett put the two of them in a big snow globe with glitter that he could shake when he wanted them…

— Debra Anastasia

“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

“There were a lot of illegal, deadly things stored in Beckett’s car, but the only thing he kept hidden was the CD he now…

— Debra Anastasia

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

— Adrian Dunbar

“It shouldn’t be a surprise—and it pleases me no end—that Beckett was an avid cyclist. “The bicycle is a great good,” he once wrote.…

— Bruce Weber

“The least you could do is offer a little conversation.” Beckett dodged a pothole, keeping his eyes on the road. “You want me to…

— Jenny B. Jones

“Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit far-fetched. But…

— Frank McCourt

“Be safe, Beckett. And forgive me.”

— Debra Anastasia