Author Quote by John Updike

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very…

— Kathy Bates

If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

— Maryanne Wolf

In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically…

— Elliott Colla

Lord, what if I miss You? What if I miss You? What if I miss You? Oh, I'm so scared! God, what if I…

— Joyce Meyer

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

— Dave Attell

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a…

— Mohsin Hamid

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped…

— James A. Baldwin

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

— Werner Herzog

“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?”

— John Lloyd

“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were…

— Zadie Smith

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

— Frank Delaney

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to…

— Julian Barnes