Books Quote by James Joyce

“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been at the…

— Nicholas Carr

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific…

— Jules de Goncourt

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires a more…

— Flannery O'Connor

“resonate deeply in modern imaginations”

— Mary Mycio

“Modernist literature with all its vast apparatus was an instrument, a form of perception, and once absorbed, the insights it brought could be rejected…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Then in the darkness and purity of the meadows he began to feel that the world had many secrets, that they were shattering even…

— Mark Helprin

“There is no storm in the depth of illuminated thought. Everything is 'above', for what is 'below' is nothing but imagination for those without…

— Solomon's 34th Ode

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the…

— Don DeLillo

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

— Mason Cooley

“...and in the deep, dreaming hours I am easily moved by the stories of the real men and women who have lived out their…

— Stephen Goodwin