"James Patrick Donleavy" is an Irish American novelist and playwright. His first novel is The Ginger Man. Another novel, A Fairy Tale of New York, provided the title of the famous song "Fairytale of New York".

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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.