It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction... Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.


The Best Times: An Informal Memoir (ed. Open Road Media, 2015) - ISBN: 9781504011433

John Dos Passos Quotes

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction... Without ...

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction... Without ...

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction... Without ...

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction... Without ...