Books Quote by Frank Norris Download Open image ““A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”” — Frank Norris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature… — Todorov Tzvetan Copy Share Image
“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.” — Kenneth McLeish Copy Share Image
“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...” — John Julius Norwich Copy Share Image
“[T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity to admire… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick, it would be the indifference of the better people to… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“Wait till you see-at the same time that your family is dying for lack of bread-a hundred thousand acres of wheat-millions of bushels of… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“Believe this, young man," exclaimed Shelgrim, layinga thick powerful forefinger on the table to emphasize his words, "try to believe this - to begin… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness. — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“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… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“He strove for the diapason, the great song that should embrace in itself a whole epoch, a complete era, the voice of an entire… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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