Books Quote by Werner Herzog

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

— Samuel Beckett

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

— Frank Delaney

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

— Maryanne Wolf

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

Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write…

— Teju Cole

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our…

— John Guare

“[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

“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

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much…

— Samuel Beckett

“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of…

— Declan Kiberd

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