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 LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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