Edifice Quote by Frank McCourt

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

— Maryanne Wolf

I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'

— Johnny Depp

“He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it? I suspect…

— Michael Finkel

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

— Irvine Welsh

“It was the night that the power went out in Berkeley that he'd finished Joyce's Finnegan's Wake by the light of a candle. Sometimes…

— Anne Rice

“[Ulysses] appears to have been written by a perverted lunatic who has made a speciality of the literature of the latrine… I have no…

— Aramis

Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write…

— Teju Cole

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

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is…

— Karen DeCrow

“But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic,…

— John Munro Woolsey