...only because he bears a great weapon. He himself knows before he shoots whether or no he is worthy. It is all very well to jeer at the People and at the...the fact is indisputable that no art that is not\ N^ in the end understood by the People can live \/ or ever did live a single generation. In the i larger...

...degree of confidence. They expect—and rightly — that results shall be commensurate with means. . . . It is all very well to jeer at the People and at the...People can live or ever did live a single generation. . . . How necessary it becomes, then, for those who. by the simple art of writing, can invade the heart's...

...with sentences from my book, and you could not tell the difference. For example, who is it that says : "No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single genration" ? Who says : "It is the complaint of the coward, this cry against the novel with a purpose"...

...of modern life" ("The Responsibilities of the Novelist"), but it must be an art of the people, for "no art that is not in the end understood by the People...live or ever did live a single generation." In the second essay, "The True Reward of the Novelist," written while the flood of historical trash inspired...

...novelist is responsible to the people: "A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all." "It is all very well to jeer at the People and at...People can live or ever did live a single generation." The novelist fulfils his responsibilities, Norris continued, only when he devotes himself to a high...

...of modern life" ("The Responsibilities of the Novelist"), but it must be an art of the people, for "no art that is not in the end understood by the People...live or ever did live a single generation." In the second essay, "The True Reward of the Novelist," written while the flood of historical trash inspired...