Sama Zakiuddin

“She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life

“Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself and others.”
― Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller's Story

“Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. The four twentieth-century writers whose work is most responsible for it are probably Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and the poet Dylan Thomas.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft