Sherwood Anderson Quotes

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

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.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

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.

Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.