Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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