“He is a bold man who, in his writing, dares to alter---even further to distort---what he has seen and heard.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Dubliner seems to me to have some meaning and I doubt whether the same can be said for such words asLondoner and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It is seriously believed by some that the intention may have been geodetic, or, in the view of the cannier, domestic economical.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
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