185 Quotes by Sherwood Anderson

It hadn’t shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life.

It is all right you’re saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

What I as a man want is to be able, some time in my life, to do something well – to do some piece of work finely just for the sake of doing it – to know the feel of a thing growing into a life of its own under my fingers, eh?

Wait and wait. Most people’s lives are spent waiting.

If England was the mother of the Big Boy, America, she was, I fear, a woman of questionable virtue. No one knows for certain who the father was.