Source: Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson
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Famous Sherwood Anderson Quotes
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.”
Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.”
“Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.”
“You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.”
“The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
Source: The teller's tales
“Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.”
Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
Source: Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition
“If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)
“The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.”
Source: The Portable Sherwood Anderson
Source: Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition
“The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.”
Source: Poor White
“Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)
“If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.”
Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue
Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout