Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.
Gertrude SteinWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
Gertrude SteinRepeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
Gertrude Stein