Frank Norris
Frank Norris
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague, The Octopus: A Story of California, and The Pit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 March 1870
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
novelists function comment
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
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We're testing the water here, and Broadway at the Beach is extremely interested.
world wilderness all-alone
No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.
men blame conditions
Always blame conditions, not men
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Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.
evil perfect judging
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
strong humble passion
[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.
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Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.
art people generations
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
giving prussia truth-is
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.