Accomplished Quote by Raymond Queneau

“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

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing,…

— Raymond Queneau

“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

“[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

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

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

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

— David Mitchell

“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

“The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and no bottom.…

— C.G. Jung

Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where…

— E. M. Forster

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

“Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.”

— Jo Linsdell