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Writing Quotes by James Joyce
- I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many…
- For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all…
- There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing…
- The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all,…
- I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander…
- I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the…
- Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
- Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
- What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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