Quotes

“The life of an artist, but particularly that of Joyce, differs from the lives of other persons in that it’s events are becoming artistic sources even as they command his present attention. Instead of allowing each day, pushed back by the next, to lapse into imprecise memory, He shapes again the experiences which have shaped him. He is at once the captive and the liberator. In turn the process of reshaping experience becomes a part of his life, another of its recurrent events like rising or sleeping.”

• - Richard Ellmann, his biography of James Joyce