Quotes by James Joyce

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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.