Samuel Beckett Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.

  Samuel Beckett

  Success, Couple, Home

  Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider, Maurice Harmon (1998). “No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider”, p.492, Harvard University Press

• There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Two, Paper

• Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Silence, Matter

• I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Want, Ends

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Letters, Life Is

  "Love, styes and stools" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2009.

• James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Joyce

• I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.

  Samuel Beckett

  Memories, Lying, Writing

• I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

  Samuel Beckett

  Stupid, Book, Writing

  "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940". Book by Samuel Beckett, 2009.

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  Samuel Beckett

  Book, Writing, Exercise

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers."
  The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bible, Athlete, Writing

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