Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man… — Stephen J. Joyce Copy Share Image
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all… — John Guare Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. — Robert Anton Wilson 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
[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The experimental film scene was very much misogynistic as well. I don't know if you have read what little attention was given… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered… — John Munro Woolsey Copy Share Image
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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