"Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take……" — Sinclair Lewis
"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."
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Sinclair Lewis
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61 Quotes by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis has 61 quotes on this site.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth…
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's…
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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…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest…
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she…
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the…
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag,
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More Dictate Quotes
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
— Ansel Adams
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think.…
— J. G. Ballard
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
— Venerable Bede
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
— Albert Camus
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You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices…
— Jenna Marbles
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Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That…
— Demi Moore
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The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and…
— Julia Cameron
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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what…
— Douglas MacArthur
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If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country.…
— William R. Looney III
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The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is…
— James Madison
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