Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “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.” ~ Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature (1930)Source: Letter, 1926