Books Quote by Hal Duncan Download Open image ““The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe.”” — Hal Duncan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books James Joyce
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.' — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.” — Danny Brassell 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Susurrus whispers through the grass and gorse, godling of the Martian wind, gene-spliced tyke of Zephyros and Ares. His story needs no Ovid, tells… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“Susurrus is a different kind of flirt though, fickle as a godling of wind can only be but light and warm as one father,… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“Cause what do groanhuffs know? All’s they’ve done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers, getting em… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ” — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
