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
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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...."
. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
a dictator with something of the earthy American sense of humor of a Mark Twain, a George Ade, a Will Rogers, an Artemus Ward.