After ENDGAME, Beckett became scant in writing that he wrote plays [Ruby Cohn described them to me as "not active plays"] which were growing tinier in length in a way some cynics thought that Beckett would one day publish a volume entitled PLAYS BY SAMUEL BECKETT containing absolutely blank pages. But Beckett, having another side, explained to a fellow-Irishman that he was finding it difficult to write because he was finding it difficult to write with honesty. The reason why I ceased  is because, like Beckett, I have been finding it difficult to write honest things


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