Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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