Frank Norris Quotes

"No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation."

"The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it."

"Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time."

"The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

"[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."