James Joyce Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as… — Samuel Beckett
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may… — Sinclair Lewis
My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest,… — D. H. Lawrence
For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead. — Evan Dando
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,… — George Orwell
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in… — James A. Baldwin
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself. — Samuel Beckett
I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard.… — Matt Dillon
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. — Tom Stoppard
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. — Rebecca West
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.… — Stephen King
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney
Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris. — Brian Celio
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me… — Frank McCourt

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