Joyce Quotes

62 quotes by 55 authors

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. — William Faulkner
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said… — James Joyce
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
I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine. — Janet Evanovich
Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified… — Joyce Meyer
Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the… — Janet Evanovich
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and… — David Nicholls
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department.… — Kurt Vonnegut
Lord, what if I miss You? What if I miss You? What if I miss You? Oh, I'm so scared! God, what if I miss… — Joyce Meyer
If on a friendâ€™s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him… — Alexander Theroux
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time. — Tony La Russa
The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary. — John Updike
My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously. — John Ortberg
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham… — Giles Foden
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece… — Frank Delaney
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. — Raymond Queneau
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a… — Sean O'Casey
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could… — Jonathan Ames
Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris. — Brian Celio

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