Joyce Quote by Evan Dando

“If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be…

— Stephen J. Joyce

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a…

— Annie Dillard

To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire…

— Edna O'Brien

“James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what…

— Bob Dylan

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something…

— Sylvia Beach

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a…

— Sid Waddell

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

— Rebecca West

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

— Maryanne Wolf

In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically…

— Elliott Colla

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped…

— James A. Baldwin

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

— Werner Herzog

“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?”

— John Lloyd

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

— Frank Delaney

James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways.

— Jesse Andrews

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…

— Frank McCourt