Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
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Joyce
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Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant."
William S. Burroughs
Writer
"He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well."
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