If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories… — 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
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It is my own language, limited as it is. I will have to learn to work with it. There was a kind… — 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
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
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
