“You are born, you die, and the rest is just marking time” (James Joyce).” — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself. — Samuel Beckett 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
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. —JAMES JOYCE” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool. — Felicity Jones 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
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral. John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. "Acclaimed as the most important… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech,… — Bob Dylan 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
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
“Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce’s family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book… — Ernest J. Gaines Copy Share Image
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional… — Karen DeCrow 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
“I guess it's like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla 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
“If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“In his 1923 review of James Joyce Ulysses, T. S. Eliot focused on one of his generation's recurrent anxieties--the idea that art… — Jewel Spears Brooker 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
Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial… — Cornel West 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
“The only mainstream American household I know well is the one I grew up in, and I can report that my father,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“The loudness of tone in Jane Eyre is undoubtedly effective in communicating tension and frustration, but the style does of course have… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Mr. Blue's way of death was fitting. He had been utterly corrupted by America, and I find it proper that his carotid… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“Whereas Einstein was not the James Joyce of scientists and James Joyce was not the Einstein of novelists who no one could… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling 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
“You should date a girl who reads. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead… — Anonymous 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
“Laughter may not be nearly as expressive as language, but it has two properties that make it ideal for navigating sensitive topics.… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
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