Frank Norris

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”