"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become……" — Sinclair Lewis
"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
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61 Quotes by Sinclair Lewis
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- It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to…
- Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If…
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- Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
- When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
- Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she…
- It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation…
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