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Because he writes a very reduced kind of literature, freeing words from the burden of exaggeration. He is an influence on my own writing, because I find that I am often apt to exaggerate, to write too much. Beckett taught us the poetry of restraint, the poetry of silence and immobility. George Steiner once said that Beckett makes the prose of other writers sound like flatulence, and this is true, to some extent.
Curiously, another influence on me, and a more natural one given my inclinations, is Nabokov, who is a different kind of author. But I try to devise my owns ways of bringing all of these voices into accord, filtering them through my own personal perspective.