Book Quote by Kevin Myers

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

— Vikram Seth

“The worst book I’ve ever read is “Ulysses,” by Joyce, because like my undergraduate college degree, that’s nine and a half years of my…

— Jarod Kintz

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

— Frederick Lenz

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

“Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

— James Patterson

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

— Grace Paley

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

— Marianne Moore

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

— Evelyn Waugh

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

— Irvine Welsh

To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire…

— Edna O'Brien

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney