Quotes

I like to feel that a writer is perfectly cool and detached, regarding other people’s feelings or his own, like a God who has

Great Art is NEVER popular to start with.

Despite his contempt for the commercialism of American culture – a running theme in his critique of his country – the huckster spirit and

‘Trans-generational ideological dispensation’ – and the critics called this book ‘disarmingly lucid’.

Adams and James had willy-nilly established the pattern that many modern writers would treat as inevitable: the link between high artistic achievement and small

Joyce is living in obscurity in Trieste and has failed to find a publisher for Dubliners, although the book is long finished. He is

…the book’s hostile American reception is …(James) is stunned by what he calls “the vulgarity, ignorance, rabid vanity adn general idiocy” of the reviews