I can Quote by Samuel Beckett

James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.

— Samuel Beckett

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

“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

If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

— Maryanne Wolf

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'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for…

— Frank McCourt

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

My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the…

— D. H. Lawrence

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him,…

— Sean O'Casey

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they…

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Rebecca West

“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