5 Upton Sinclair Quotes on Literature

Upton Sinclair quotes on literature

1. What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.

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.

38. I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

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39. The Jungle