Joyce Quote by Brendan Behan

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much…

— Samuel Beckett

“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I…

— Philip Levine

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

“To pass the time, I made valiant strides in my effort to read Ulysses, but feared I was losing the war. A hundred pages…

— B. Justin Shier

If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

— Maryanne Wolf

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you…

— Joseph Epstein

My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the…

— D. H. Lawrence

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in his second…

— Christopher Hitchens

Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write…

— Teju Cole

Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk…

— Cormac McCarthy

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

— Dean Koontz