Sinclair Lewis Writing Quotations

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

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.

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.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.