Quotes by Joyce, James

While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give i >>

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes >>

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serv >>

Quotations about Fiction

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only rela >>

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's on >>

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes y >>

When I heard the word stream uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.

Joyce, James