Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

- James T. Farrell

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

- James T. Farrell

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

- James T. Farrell

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

- James T. Farrell

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

- James T. Farrell

Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who …

- James T. Farrell

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

- James T. Farrell

In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street po…

- James T. Farrell

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

- James T. Farrell