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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

“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

“Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.”

World Mean Ends Next Difficult Differences Achieve Building Taste Occupation Good Taste Building Up

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

“Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?”

May Mean Art Reality Life Is Understood Very Good Journalism Realism Good Journalism

Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader

“Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.”

Want Mean Littles Past Glorious Accomplished

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

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”

Ifs Knows Mean Enough Bigs Found Realizing Lovers Destruction Inevitable

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.”

Giving Looks Mean Children Feelings Night Dark Sleep Nice Warm Bedroom Mississippi Nice Feeling Sleeping Child

Book:Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson

Source: Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson

“Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.”

Mean Art Reality Life Is Realism

Author:Sherwood Anderson