The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with a wonderful sequence of bleak studies about the ways in which human lives can go awry - in my view, Dubliners is underrated.
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.
Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
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.
People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.
Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
Lord, what if I miss You? What if I miss You? What if I miss You? Oh, I'm so scared! God, what if I miss You? He answered simply, "Joyce, don't worry; if you miss Me, I will find you.
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
Jesse Joyce is a great writer.
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.
Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.
