Writing Quote by James Joyce

“And so a man’s heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in…

— John Eldredge

“His expression transforms, looking mean in a good way, promising me greed and aggression, things I'd never ask for but long to see.”

— Cara McKenna

“Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book…

— Italo Calvino

“He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty…

— Wallace Stegner

“I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate…

— Novalis

“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.”

— Charles Olson

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,…

— Stefan Zweig

“Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.”

— John Bunyan

“When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.”

— Jean Plaidy

“He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an…

— Camus, Albert

“[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions,…

— Thomas Hardy