Best 8 quotes of Frank Norris on MyQuotes

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.

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

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

[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.

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

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

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.