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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

“It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.”

Littles Long Desire Progress Fairs Apples Worms

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.”

People Long Fields Wind Standing West Bounds Forgotten Chains My Time Corn

Book:Mid-American Chants

Source: Mid-American Chants

“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another.”

Want Years Humans Heart Long Moments Hands Seems Humanity Space Calling Breathing Touched March Eighteen Breathing Space Touch Someone

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.”

Writing Years Long Stories Taken Written Mines Ten Crafts Twelve

Book:THE

Source: THE

“I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.”

Thinking Knows Littles Long Happens New York Things Happen

Author:Sherwood Anderson