October 1, 2008

• James Joyce

  I just finished this wonderful book and decided to share some quotes for you:
  
  -All the leisure which his school life left him was passed in the company of subversive writers whose gibes and violence of speech set up ferment in his brain before they passed out of it into his crude writings.
  
  I can't think of a more beautiful way to express the joys of reading...and writing.

  -To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and color which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand - that is art.

  I love the first line about trying to understand their nature, it is the first step I often forget when trying to come up with a composition. To truly understand something to its core and pry it apart and mold it into something anew. Ah...so wonderful.

  James Joyce is to Writing what Jazz is to Music.

  Next I tackle Ulysses which I started and put down already once, but I feel the need to "conquer" it even though I probably won't.

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