Sloan Wilson Quotes & Sayings

Instead of getting the house like Mount Vernon, they had moved into the little house on Greentree Avenue in Westport, and Betsy had become pregnant, and he had thrown the vase against the wall, and the washing machine had broken down. And Grandmother had died and left her house to somebody, and instead of being made vice-president of J. H. Nottersby, Incorporated, he had finally arrived at a job where he tested mattresses, was uneasy when his boss said he wanted to see him without explaining why, and lived in fear of an elevator operator. — Sloan Wilson

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education. — Sloan Wilson

I could get a job in an advertising agency. I'll write copy telling people to eat more cornflakes and smoke more and more cigarettes and buy more refrigerators and automobiles, until they explode with happiness. — Sloan Wilson

You don't really know much until you get to be 70. — Sloan Wilson

The world's treated me awfully well, and I guess it's crept into my work. — Sloan Wilson

That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all. — Sloan Wilson

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long. — Sloan Wilson

Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories. — Sloan Wilson

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough. — Sloan Wilson

You won't understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball. — Sloan Wilson

I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase. — Sloan Wilson

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class. — Sloan Wilson

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. — Sloan Wilson

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. — Sloan Wilson

How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay. — Sloan Wilson

Believe me, I want you to have a good time,' he said gently, 'but people who have that primarily in mind rarely accomplish it. — Sloan Wilson

People don't say 'Zounds!' anymore. — Sloan Wilson

It doesn't really matter. Here goes nothing. It will be interesting to see what happens. — Sloan Wilson

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. — Sloan Wilson

When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money. — Sloan Wilson

You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic. — Sloan Wilson