James Joyce
Ulysses revolutionized the modern novel
Most quoted
"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
All quotes by James Joyce (263)
I am not a legend, I am a writer.
I have tried to make my readers think.
I am not a celebrity, I am an artist.
I have always been interested in the human condition.
I am not a monument, I am a man of flesh and blood.
I have tried to create a work of art that will endure.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
My humour is not for the crowd – it is for the happy few.
I am a man of letters, not a man of business.
I have not read it yet. I have only written it.
I'm not a writer, I'm a man who writes.
I was a good Catholic, but I was a bad Christian.
I am quite content to let the professors take care of my books.
I am a great admirer of the English language, but I am not an Englishman.
I have a book in my head, but I can't get it out.
I have been writing for twenty years, and I have not yet written a single line that I am satisfied with.
I am not interested in the future, I am interested in the present.
I am not a pessimist, I am a realist.
I am not a philosopher, I am a storyteller.
I am not a politician, I am a writer.
Contemporaries of James Joyce
Other Literatures born within 50 years of James Joyce (1882–1941).