4 Upton Sinclair Quotes on Criticism

Upton Sinclair quotes on criticism

20. The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear.

33. What Fielding was to the eighteenth century and Dickens to the nineteenth. Sinclair is to our own. The overwhelming knowledge and passionate expression of specific wrongs are more stirring, more interesting, and also more taxing than the cynical censure of Fielding and the sentimental lamentations of Dickens.

34. I look upon Upton Sinclair as one of the greatest novelists in the world, the Zola of America.

35. I did not want to say these unpleasant things, but you have written to me, asking my opinion, and I give it to you, flat. If you would get over two ideas - first that any one who criticizes you is an evil and capitalist-controlled spy, and second that you have only to spend a few weeks on any subject to become a master of it - you might yet regain your now totally lost position as the leader of American socialistic journalism.