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Sherwood Anderson Quotes

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.116, Sheba Blake Publishing

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

Sherwood Anderson (1949). “The Portable Sherwood Anderson”

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)”, p.220, Library of America

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)”, p.835, Library of America

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

A man needs a purpose for real health.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

Sherwood Anderson (2016). “Poor White”, p.9, Sherwood Anderson

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.84, Courier Corporation

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

Sherwood Anderson (1924). “A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue”, p.332, University of Michigan Press

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”