Quotes by Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Fiction

Romance

Strong

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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don’t mind being that.

Literature

Mind

People

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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art’s sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

Art

Criticism

Memories

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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

Believe

People

Suffering

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A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

Criticism

Doe

May

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A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he’ll start by imitating whatever he’s read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

Mean

People

Writing

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Advertising – a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Advertising

Business

Mixtures

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Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.

Making Money

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Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don’t know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

Country

Making Money

Moral

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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

Attributes

May

Writing

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