James Joyce
Irish Novelist and Poet
| Date of Birth | : | 02 Feb, 1882 |
| Date of Death | : | 13 Jan, 1941 |
| Place of Birth | : | Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland |
| Profession | : | Author, Poet, Teacher |
| Nationality | : | Irish |
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.
Quotes
Total 21 Quotes
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Love loves to love love.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
