Beckett Quote by Peter Handke

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made…

— David Duchovny

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

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

— Edward Albee

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

— Art Spiegelman

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

“Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.”

— Bob Smith

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

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“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

“If you've never come across Soccer Saturday, imagine a Samuel Beckett play in which a slick circus-master gets four retired clowns to describe a…

— Esquire Magazine

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading…

— Brian Evenson