“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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