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American novelist known for his profound insights into the lives of the American middle class. Anderson's works often focus on the inner world and social status of ordinary people, and his style is concise and direct, which has had a profound impact on American literature.

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Famous Sherwood Anderson Quotes

“Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.”

Thinking Feels Trying Hands Draws Drawing Think Of You Adept

Book:The Portable Sherwood Anderson

Source: The Portable Sherwood Anderson

“Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips.”

Feels Mean Doe Made Matter Objects Draws Apples Dishes Masterpiece Turnips

Book: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

“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.”

Men Feels Writing Wealth Money Known Rich Adventure Rich Man Full Life

Book:Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition

Source: Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition

“What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?”

Ifs Men Feels Important Force Wonder Ego Delight Egotism

Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader