James T. Farrell Quotes

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

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

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

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

There’s one good kind of writer – a dead one.

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.

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

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.