Famous Quote by James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery

Facts about the Life of James Joyce
This Poet and Novelist had a hard life, for the majority of his life he earned very little, he travelled around Europe with his common law wife and two children, doing whatever clerical work or teaching work he could find. He only began to earn money from writing in his later years, at which point his eyesight had deteriorated to almost the point of blindness. Because of his failing eyesight he had to increasingly rely on friends, family and memory to complete his works. Many of his books fell foul of the censors and were banned, some even pirated, his daughter the love of his life in his last years, become insane and had to be confined in a mental Asylum.