Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewiswas an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 February 1885
CitySauk Centre, MN
CountryUnited States of America
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.