Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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