James T. Farrell
James T. Farrell
James Thomas Farrellwas an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1904
CountryUnited States of America
James T. Farrell quotes about
conditions ifs
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.
growing-up father book
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.
kind
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
lonely loneliness party
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.