On Pulp Literature

The boy's novelette may be ignorant in a literary sense, which is only like saying that modern novel is ignorant in the chemical sense, or the economic sense, or the astronomical sense; but it is not vulgar intrinsically--it is the actual centre of a million flaming imaginations.

--G.K. Chesterton, "A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls," The Defendant (1901)