Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISI must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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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.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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