---
title: "2 Toes Quotes By Sinclair Lewis"
description: "2 Toes quotes by Sinclair Lewis. Plus more from Sinclair Lewis and more Toes sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/417/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writing-is-just-work-there-s-no-secret-i_270235.png"
---

> [Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/writing-is-just-work-there-s-no-secret-if-you-dictate-or-use-a-pen-or/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/417/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writing-is-just-work-there-s-no-secret-i_270235.png)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/writers-kid-themselves-about-themselves-and-other-people-take-the/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writers-kid-themselves-about-themselves_2315647.png)

## Other authors on Toes

## More by Sinclair Lewis

> [“She found beauty in the children.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/she-found-beauty-in-the-children/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/what-is-love-listen-it-is-the-rainbow-that-stands-out-in-all-its/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/when-you-think-that-most-of-us-are-doomed-by-divine-grace-to-roast-in/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/he-loved-the-people-just-as-much-as-he-feared-and-detested-persons/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/he-had-expected-that-traditionally-republican-vermont-would-give-him/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/day-on-day-he-waited-so-much-of-a-revolution-for-so-many-people-is/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/she-continued-it-to-hugh-darling-do-you-know-what-mother-and-you-are/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/is-it-possible-that-nobody-has-ever-known-that-there-never-has-been-a/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/i-think-perhaps-we-want-a-more-conscientious-life-we-re-tired-of/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/it-might-be-the-doing-of-satan-in-whom-aaron-anxiously-believed-with/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/the-author-says-one-character-s-definition-of-a-classic-is-any-book/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/like-all-males-he-hated-to-confess-ignorance-by-asking-directions/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/winter-is-not-a-season-it-s-an-occupation/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/author-sees-the-congested-idealism-of-the-generally-discontent-as/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/the-poor-we-have-always-with-us-and-the-purpose-of-the-lord-in/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toes/sinclair-lewis/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 Toes Quotes By Sinclair Lewis",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Sinclair Lewis"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/writing-is-just-work-there-s-no-secret-if-you-dictate-or-use-a-pen-or/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/417/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writing-is-just-work-there-s-no-secret-i_270235.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/417/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writing-is-just-work-there-s-no-secret-i_270235.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/417/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writing-is-just-work-there-s-no-secret-i_270235.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's…” — Sinclair Lewis",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "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.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Sinclair Lewis"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/writers-kid-themselves-about-themselves-and-other-people-take-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writers-kid-themselves-about-themselves_2315647.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writers-kid-themselves-about-themselves_2315647.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writers-kid-themselves-about-themselves_2315647.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is…” — Sinclair Lewis",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toes/sinclair-lewis/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toes/sinclair-lewis/",
            "name": "Toes Quotes by Sinclair Lewis",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toes/sinclair-lewis/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/417/sinclair-lewis-1945_ifs_writing-is-just-work-there-s-no-secret-i_270235.png"
            },
            "description": "2 Toes quotes by Sinclair Lewis. Plus more from Sinclair Lewis and more Toes sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toes/sinclair-lewis/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toes/sinclair-lewis/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Toes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Sinclair Lewis",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toes/sinclair-lewis/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```