James Joyce

I am not a writer. I am a man who writes.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.

If I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

I am quite content to pay the price. Let the Irish be the first to understand that I am a free man.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

I fear that I have been a bad boy, but I have not been a dull one.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

My mind is incapable of either a sustained effort or a profound one.

I am a victim of my own imagination.

He who shies away from a direct grappling with reality, from the raw, unadorned truth, is a coward.

I am a great admirer of the Jews. I am impressed by their long history, their perseverance, and their intellectual achievements.

The Catholic Church is the biggest bugbear in my life.

I am a man who has suffered much for the sake of his art.

My father was a man of the world, and he taught me to be one too.

I have no country. I am a stateless person.

Silence, exile, and cunning.

I am an artist, and I am a man. I am an artist and a man.