Daily Quote by Pete Buttigieg

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

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for…

— Don DeLillo

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“I realized that Joyce had gone as far as one could in the direction of knowing more, in control of one's material. He was…

— Samuel Beckett

Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life". I hope…

— Philip Kitcher

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

— Tom Stoppard

“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

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I…

— Philip Levine

At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by the sense…

— Michael Rosen

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

— Rebecca West

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

— Irvine Welsh