Always blame conditions, not men

- Frank Norris

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

- Frank Norris

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 …

- Frank Norris

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

- Frank Norris

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 cit…

- Frank Norris

[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…

- Frank Norris

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

- Frank Norris

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

- Frank Norris

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

- Frank Norris