More Quotes by James Joyce
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
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.