Distinguished writers are often voracious readers. Reading multifarious works helps them to get acquainted with diverse writing flairs and to set up ideas for plotting stories. Acquiring diversity in writing assists also in escaping repetition and in developing imagination. Thus the writer grasps new writing strategies and techniques among a wide variety of topics and styles. Eminent writers are influenced by the writings of their forerunners. This paper attempts to explore Beckett’s impact as a dramaturge on Pinter, the playwright.