I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
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
“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously. — John Ortberg 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
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
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