Gratitude Quote by H.G. Wells

“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

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

“I guess it's like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of the day,…

— Art Pepper

“To pass the time, I made valiant strides in my effort to read Ulysses, but feared I was losing the war. A hundred pages…

— B. Justin Shier

“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

“Joyce has freed us from the superstition of syntax," agreed the curly man.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“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

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

— George Orwell

“Joyce has also come to appreciate Isabel’s sensitive ways. “Isabel is an old soul,” she says. “You forget that she’s only a child. When…

— Susan Cain

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

— John Lloyd

“Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the Joyce I left a note that said well I guess I got no choice…

— Walter Becker

“And of course there was Seamus, who could now come to work with me on most days. He had a bed and toys in…

— Teresa Rhyne