Joyce Quotes

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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
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about… — Ernest Hemingway
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the… — J M Coetzee
Jesse has opened for me extensively on the road so Iâ€™ve seen him do hundreds of sets. He is always super funny, has tons of… — Greg Giraldo
Jesse Joyce is a great writer. — Dave Attell
People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt. — Jane Wiedlin
A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking… — Philip Warren Anderson
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the… — Edward Abbey
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
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few… — Stanley Crouch
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the… — Don DeLillo
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two… — Kevin Myers
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia
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

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