Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by James T. Farrell (American Novelist)

James T. Farrell (1904–79,) fully James Thomas Farrell, was an American novelist, short-story writer, critic, and essayist. He is celebrated for his Studs Lonigan trilogy, which featured realistic portraits of the lower-middle-class Irish in Chicago, drawn from his own experiences.

Born to a working-class Irish American family in Chicago, Farrell paid for his own education at the University of Chicago (1925–29) and lived in Paris in the early 1930s. His first novel was Young Lonigan (1932,) which began the Studs Lanigan trilogy of life on Chicago’s South Side, realistically and graphically portrayed. A lapsed Catholic and a naturalist in the mold of Emile Zola, he owes much to the style of Sherwood Anderson.

Farrell’s other volumes were The Young Manhood of Studs Lanigan (1934) and Judgement Day (1935.) An accomplished study of defeat (the hero dies aged 29,) the later was a landmark in U.S. fiction. This was followed by a five-novel sequence centered on Danny O’Neill (1936–53) and another trilogy on Bernard Clare (1946–52.)

Farrell published more than 50 novels in all. Among his nonfiction works are A Note on Literary Criticism (1936,) a discussion of Marxist literature, and Reflections at Fifty (1954,) personal essays.

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There’s one good kind of writer—a dead one.
James T. Farrell
Topics: Authors & Writing

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
Topics: America

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
James T. Farrell
Topics: Censorship

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