Sinclair Lewis Quotes

Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour.…

— Jimmy Carter

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

— Jane Smiley

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his…

— Fay Wray

Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I…

— Allen W. Wood

“It is, to tell the truth, just such a Main Street as Sinclair Lewis describes with such delightful malevolence, but like that…

— Earnest Elmo Calkins

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked…

— Tom T. Hall

“Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis…

— Peter Prichard

Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world… [ellipsis in source] He was always…

— Gertrude Stein

“The bartender put a notepad and a pencil before me. Breathing hard, the pencil trembling, I wrote: Dear Sinclair Lewis: You were…

— John Fante

Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do…

— David Cross

“I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was…

— Richard Wright

“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been…

— Sam Anderson - NY Magazine

“I was amused and somewhat astonished at a critic a few years back who wrote an article analyzing Dandelion Wine plus the…

— Ray Bradbury

“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t…

— Timothy Snyder