Quote

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 Lewis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
Write
Stills
Still
Dictate
Writing
Toes
Work
Pens
Type
Secret
Use

More quotes by Sinclair Lewis

Image
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No it is something dead.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
Sinclair Lewis
Image
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.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8
Sinclair Lewis
Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called patriotism and love of sport.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
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.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. 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.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
Sinclair Lewis