Top Joyce Quotes
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 me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
Raymond Queneau
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Don DeLillo
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner
All Joyce Quotes
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
Raymond Queneau 
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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 me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt 
56% of people like this quote
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard 
55% of people like this quote
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Don DeLillo 
54% of people like this quote
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
Rebecca West 
54% of people like this quote
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner 
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson 
53% of people like this quote
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett 
53% of people like this quote

Raymond Queneau
Frank McCourt
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George Orwell
Rebecca West
Robert Anton Wilson
Tom Stoppard
William Faulkner
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