"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize." | by: | Sinclair Lewis
(1885-1951) American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature (1930) |
Source: | Letter, 1926 |
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