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 LEWISWhen fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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 everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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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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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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