Beckett Quotes
The playwright who shaped modern dark comedy.
These Beckett quotes place him alongside Jackson Pollock, John Cage, and Joyce as an artist no one stays indifferent to, and describe 'Coraline' as feeling like Beckett written for kids.
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing...
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My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.
Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
Cage Quotes
I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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Other quotes credit discovering Beckett in college with showing that a story can be very funny and very dark at once, and one writer traces giving up poetry to right around the time they found his work.
