Sinclair Lewis People Quotations

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

You have more people that love you than you know.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

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.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."