Sinclair Lewis

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#America #Religion #Flags

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

#Real #Writing #Giving

“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Country #4th Of July #Patriotic

“The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Country #People #Blame

“Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Dog #Sleep #My Dog

“Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Inspirational #Winter #Occupation

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Love #Morning #Stars

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

#Writing #Long #People

“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.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Kids #Writing #People

“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Kings #Men #Long

“When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Looks #Lectures #Audience

“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Money #Way #Advertising

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Sick #Cookies

“NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Facts

“It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Class

“She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Dream #Country #Main Street

“People read fiction for emotion-not information”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#People #Information #Fiction

“People will buy anything that is one to a customer.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Funny Inspirational #People

“It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Atheist #Believe #Thinking

“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Travel #Half #Littles

“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#People #Misanthropy #Persons

“It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Old Friends #Tragedy #Affection

“There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Two #Sense Of Humor #Insult

“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Education #Literature #Cold

“The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Class #Barbarians #Century

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Baseball #Stars #Sunday

“She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Mind #Details #Thoroughness

“The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Girl #Witty #Kissing

“You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.”
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Ideas #Want #Drs

“You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.”
-- Sinclair Lewis