"I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book."

"I have been writing for twenty years, and I have only just begun to learn how to write."

"I have not read the book, but I have read the reviews."

"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works."

"I am a verb, not a noun."