The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable. — Seamus Deane Copy Share Image
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I later spent a year studying Finnegans Wake with Norman O. Brown, an exercise in masturbatory obscurantism that Bryan would never have… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The great fact emerges that after that historic date all holographs so far exhumed initialled by Haromphrey bear the sigla H.C.E. and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“I hope I have now made it clear why I thought it best, in speaking of the dissonances between fiction and reality… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“On turning to the Work in Progress we find that the mirror is not so convex. Here is direct expression--pages and pages… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“James Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word “Hindoo” (as the British used to spell it), joking… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life".… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Length, I want to suggest, has a peculiar significance for the reader of a Victorian novel and especially so if we are… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
![“I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes…” quote by Sylvia Beach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/22f/sylvia-beach-69793_books_i-think-james-joyce-sometimes-enjoyed-mi_432119.jpg)
