31 Quotes by Frank Norris

Goo'-by, ole Bill, by-by. There you go, an' the signal o' distress roun' you, H. B. 'I'm in need of assistance.' Lord, here comes the sharks--look! look! look at um fight! look at um takin' ole Bill! I'm in need of assistance. I sh'd say you were, ole Bill.

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.

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

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.

We're testing the water here, and Broadway at the Beach is extremely interested.

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

Always blame conditions, not men

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