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

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

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

Always blame conditions, not men

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

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 art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.