“I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.”
![“I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.” quote by Simon Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/503/simon-rich-25140_chocolate_i-was-never-a-cool-person-in-fact-cool-p_620335.jpg)
![“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 me think about language.” quote by David Duchovny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/929/david-duchovny-1754_beckett_i-would-say-recently-i-ve-gotten-back-to_34496.jpg)
![“I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6a6/jean-paul-sartre-220_admire_i-admire-samuel-beckett-but-i-am-totally_398585.jpg)
