Creative Quotations from Frank Norris (1870-1902)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Frank Norris
(1870-1902) born on Mar 05

US novelist. He was an influential muckraker best known for "The Octopus," 1901 and "The Pit," 1903.

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[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.

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

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

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

I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Essays on Authorship."
R:	"The Responsibilities of the Novelist," 1903.
A:	In "The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases," by Donald Bolander, 1987.
N:	"Essays on Authorship."
K:	"The Responsibilities of a Novelist," 1903.