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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
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Readers [...] want to be lost in a book, and they have feelings about the characters, feelings about the plot. A writer has the same experiences as a reader, but she also has the project she's working on.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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September 26, 1949
(age 75)
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