Creating Quote by James Joyce

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

— Irvine Welsh

I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an…

— George Orwell

“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

“[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 never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the…

— Tara Bray Smith

A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The…

— George V. Higgins

Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to…

— Ilana Mercer

“One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren’t lacking in stamina, what a rich…

— Gustave Flaubert

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

— Cate Blanchett

“Since Ulysses S. Grant’s spelling could border on the eccentric, I have taken the liberty of correcting that and his punctuation and capitalization throughout…

— Ron Chernow