Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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