“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
“It was not his nature to believe that he should engage in any kind of meddling or become actively involved in politics.… — Carola Giedion-Welcker Copy Share Image
“I go to bed and then that man sits in the next room and continues laughing about his own writing. And then… — Nora Barnacle Copy Share Image
“...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)” — Ovid Copy Share Image
“You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initiation—by the Golden Dawn, or by… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“We were working on what became Finnegan's Wake, and there was a knock at the door. I didn't hear it, so when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He blurred his thens and his nows—in a fantastic drunken distortion—with the thisness and thenness of now and before, re-spectively; wisps of… — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a Garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India;… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
“It [Joyce's "Ulysses"] plays on the reader's sympathies to his own undoing unless sleep kindly intervenes and puts a stop to this… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
“As a young man, he was already rather pompous and full of himself, concerned with what he would write and with his… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
