Sinclair Lewis Quotes about Writing

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

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

Sinclair Lewis

Writing, Long, People

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

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)

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

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