Admire Quote by Michael Craig-Martin

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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

— Jonathan Evison

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

Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to…

— Robert H. Schuller

I never wanted to be an author or thought I could be.

— James Van Praagh

“Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and…

— Candace Bushnell

“During this time, I proved to myself that I was as good as other authors who had achieved the same stature. But I quickly…

— Colette Baron Reid

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.

— James D'arcy