You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It was as though her woman's hand was assisting him to make some minute readjustment of the machinery of his life.” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ... — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“One conceals oneself standing silently beside the trunk of a tree and what there is of a reflective tendency in his nature… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Their bodies were different as were the color of their eyes, the length of their noses and the circumstances of their existence,… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“There is something memorable in the experience to be had by going into a fair ground that stands at the edge of… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“There is something memorable in the experience to be had by going to a fair ground that stands at the edge of… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection,… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. The fools who write articles about me… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, where in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. 'You must pay attention to me,' he urged. 'If something happens you will be able to… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It might be that women who have been nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught to have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come to the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
