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Writing Quotes by Sinclair Lewis
- 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.
- It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
- Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
- 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…
- Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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