Getting started Quote by Kate DiCamillo

“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

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

— David Mitchell

“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

“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so best to…

— Patrick deWitt

“Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy. And I needed to use my words…

— Jennifer Armentrout

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I loved all the words in his book—just not in the order he arranged them, or the frequency with which he used them. To…

— Jarod Kintz

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie