Quote by James Joyce

“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

“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

“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

“[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

“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in his second…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Will I die without ever reading Ulysses to the end?”

— David Mitchell

“The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words…

— Kate DiCamillo

“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there are, I…

— Virginia Woolf

“People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was…

— Dale Peck

“The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and no bottom.…

— C.G. Jung

“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such…

— Richard Flanagan