Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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