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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“You have turned your back on common men, on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence [...] I ask: who the hell… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“I realized that Joyce had gone as far as one could in the direction of knowing more, in control of one's material. He was… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce’s family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book called Dubliners… — Ernest J. Gaines Copy Share Image
“Joyce has freed us from the superstition of syntax," agreed the curly man.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our… — John Guare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways. — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image