Finnegans wake Quote by Seamus Deane

“On turning to the Work in Progress we find that the mirror is not so convex. Here is direct expression--pages and pages of it.…

— Samuel Beckett

“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven’t…

— Roger Ebert

The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

— Dennis Miller

For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every…

— Philip Kitcher

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something…

— Sylvia Beach

“I later spent a year studying Finnegans Wake with Norman O. Brown, an exercise in masturbatory obscurantism that Bryan would never have undertaken—and he…

— William Finnegan

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

— Leslie Fiedler

Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help.…

— Toni Morrison

“I hope I have now made it clear why I thought it best, in speaking of the dissonances between fiction and reality in our…

— Frank Kermode

“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake…

— Helen DeWitt

You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and…

— Philip Larkin