23 Quotes by James T. Farrell

Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the worst.

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

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

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 poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

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.

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.

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

He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked along, and he didn’t even blow a How-do-you-do through his whiskers. He just walked on past you. Things just change.