Beckett Quote by William S. Burroughs

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

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

— Italo Svevo

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for…

— Don DeLillo

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

— Dave Attell

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

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up…

— Anne Rice

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

— Grace Paley

At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by the sense…

— Michael Rosen

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

— John Updike

To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire…

— Edna O'Brien

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last…

— Frederick Lenz

Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800…

— John Larroquette