I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 my plays.
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
I have a lot of books I want to write.
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.
I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing.
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.