Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into… — 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
Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the… — 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
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
