The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa,… — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
“(James Joyce, in conversation with Carl Jung:)"Literary artists know more about the human mind than you fellers have a hope in hell… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris. — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
“The imagination is also sometimes commended for offering us in vicarious form experiences which we are unable to enjoy at first hand.… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Coonskin caps and silly putty were just not going to cut it anymore. The good mother got her kids toys that were… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him. I'm more interested in what's meaningful within the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you want to see a truly long sentence, pick up a copy of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, which reportedly contains a… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of the biggest challenges you'll face… — Stefanie Weisman Copy Share Image
Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“They also bring to mind what sometimes seems to be a rapt predilection of small but influential cults of intellectuals or esthetes… — Hervey M. Cleckley Copy Share Image
When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because… — Madeline Miller 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
