Sinclair Lewis Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Real, Writing, Giving

• Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Long, People

• Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Kids, People

• 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

  Writing, Secret, Use

• 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.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Art, Writing

  'Babbitt' (1922) ch. 14

• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Safe, Polite

  Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

• Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Scientist

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