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Jesse Joyce is a great writer.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.
Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.
People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.
For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways.
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
When I think of the name 'Joyce' I think of a grandma or an old chubby Mrs. Claus.
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent.
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
One of the most practical utensils I can't live without is my 'Joyce Chen' Scissors. They cut with precision.
My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris.
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
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.
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.
I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.
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.
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
Martin Joyce is a beautiful dancer and an amazing choreographer. He choreographed the Mulberry dance film I was in, 'From London with Love.' A truly talented man.
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I made with my father, and it's emotional for me as well as a movie I'm proud of.
I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
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.
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.
In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written.
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to see if the story is going to radiate spokes. Their literature has always done that and gifted me beautiful things.
When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find a structure for cinema. I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life.
I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.
It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity with the language. And to have that, one must respect it.
In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.
What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.