Comment Quote by Frank Norris Download Open image “The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.” — Frank Norris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comment Function Life Novelists
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.” — Angela Young Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity. — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and… — Gabrielle Roy 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
“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.” — 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
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms.… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
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