Always Quote by Roddy Doyle

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really…

— Roddy Doyle

“He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it? I suspect…

— Michael Finkel

“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

“I was able to correct the first half of Ulysses for the third edition and to read the first two volumes recommendés by Mr…

— James Joyce

“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

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

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

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last…

— Frederick Lenz

“[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

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

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Since Ulysses S. Grant’s spelling could border on the eccentric, I have taken the liberty of correcting that and his punctuation and capitalization throughout…

— Ron Chernow