The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett Quotes

“is what could be called a grafting technique,”
― C.J. Ackerly, The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought

“Beckett’s notebooks show that he too plundered the books he was reading or studying for material that he would then incorporate into his own writing.”
― C.J. Ackerly, The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought

“Joyce took particular care with his research, reading books primarily for what they could offer him for his own writing. (Indeed many people who knew him, including Beckett, have claimed he read almost exclusively for this purpose.)”
― C.J. Ackerly, The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought

“Beckett seemed to be working through what Roland Barthes in his seminal essay “The Death of the Author” described as “tissues of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.”
― C.J. Ackerly, The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought