--- title: "16 Way Quotes By Norman Mailer" description: "16 Way quotes by Norman Mailer. Plus more from Norman Mailer and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d74/norman-mailer-839_affects_the-way-you-write-affects-what-you-say-2_248285.png" --- > [The way you write affects what you say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/the-way-you-write-affects-what-you-say/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d74/norman-mailer-839_affects_the-way-you-write-affects-what-you-say-2_248285.png) > [Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/growth-in-some-curious-way-i-suspect-depends-on-being-always-in/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/norman-mailer-839_curious_growth-in-some-curious-way-i-suspect-dep_2562555.png) > [People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/people-move-forward-into-the-future-out-of-the-way-they-comprehend/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b38/norman-mailer-839_crippled_people-move-forward-into-the-future-out_406105.png) > [Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/mailer-s-law-a-thing-either-gets-better-or-it-costs-more-to-run-it/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/norman-mailer-839_cost_mailer-s-law-a-thing-either-gets-better_883923.png) > [Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/great-hope-has-no-real-footing-unless-one-is-willing-to-face-into-the/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d9/norman-mailer-839_doom_great-hope-has-no-real-footing-unless-on_628004.jpg) > [The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/the-condition-that-is-most-disagreeable-in-your-life-becomes-the-most/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c88/norman-mailer-839_army_the-condition-that-is-most-disagreeable_2215991.jpg) > [We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/we-are-all-so-guilty-at-the-way-we-have-allowed-the-world-around-us/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7c/norman-mailer-839_guilty_we-are-all-so-guilty-at-the-way-we-have_1757736.jpg) > [And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/and-so-i-ask-would-you-agree-that-sex-is-where-philosophy-begins-but/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d1/norman-mailer-839_agree_and-so-i-ask-would-you-agree-that-sex-is_1718163.png) > [I can't get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-can-t-get-excited-about-politics-but-i-love-it-as-a-game-because/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/norman-mailer-839_ability_i-can-t-get-excited-about-politics-but-i_3002118.png) > [The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/the-frenchman-jean-paulsartre-had-a-dialectical-mind-good-as-a/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56c/norman-mailer-839_anguish_the-frenchman-jean-paulsartre-had-a-dial_1281465.png) > [When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/when-you-know-too-much-information-and-you-acquire-it-too-easily-you/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/norman-mailer-839_acquire_when-you-know-too-much-information-and-y_3145295.png) > [It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/it-s-very-bad-to-write-a-novel-by-act-of-will-i-can-do-a-book-of/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e5/norman-mailer-839_book_it-s-very-bad-to-write-a-novel-by-act-of_814381.png) > [America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/america-has-an-almost-obscene-infatuation-with-itself-has-there-ever/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a7/norman-mailer-839_america_america-has-an-almost-obscene-infatuatio_1659004.jpg) > [There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/there-is-one-expanding-horror-in-american-life-it-is-that-our-long/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98c/norman-mailer-839_america_there-is-one-expanding-horror-in-america_1963635.jpg) > [I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-m-a-great-believer-in-the-hereafter-in-karma-in-reincarnation-it/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cb/norman-mailer-839_artist_i-m-a-great-believer-in-the-hereafter-in_2014987.jpg) > [I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-don-t-trust-compliments-i-ve-been-getting-them-for-years-sometimes/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56d/norman-mailer-839_compliment_i-don-t-trust-compliments-i-ve-been-gett_3170625.png) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Norman Mailer > [Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/conservatives-are-people-who-look-at-a-tree-and-feel-instinctively/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/there-s-a-subterranean-impetus-towards-pornography-so-powerful-that/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/so-the-blind-will-lead-the-blind-and-the-deaf-shout-warnings-to-one/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/writing-for-a-newspaper-is-like-running-a-revolutionary-war-you-go-to/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-would-introduce-myself-if-it-were-not-useless-the-name-i-had-last/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/city-point-is-so-beautiful-she-says-in-the-night-they-cannot-see-the/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-find-it-s-more-fun-to-write-about-something-that-you-don-t-know/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/short-term-amnesia-is-not-the-worst-affliction-if-you-have-an-irish/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/part-of-the-oncoming-demise-of-new-york-during-its-terrible-fiscal/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-have-always-had-this-very-strong-call-it-a-feeling-call-it-a/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-do-believe-that-america-s-deepest-political-sickness-is-that-it-is/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/america-is-a-hurricane-and-the-only-people-who-do-not-hear-the-sound/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/armstrong-sitting-in-the-commander-s-seat-spacesuit-on-helmet-on/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-was-thinking-that-surgeons-had-to-be-the-happiest-people-on-earth/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) > [Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/movies-are-more-likely-than-literature-to-reach-deep-feelings-in/) [Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/norman-mailer/#itemlist", "name": "16 Way Quotes By Norman Mailer", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The way you write affects what you say.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Norman Mailer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/the-way-you-write-affects-what-you-say/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d74/norman-mailer-839_affects_the-way-you-write-affects-what-you-say-2_248285.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d74/norman-mailer-839_affects_the-way-you-write-affects-what-you-say-2_248285.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d74/norman-mailer-839_affects_the-way-you-write-affects-what-you-say-2_248285.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The way you write affects what you say.” — Norman Mailer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Norman Mailer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/growth-in-some-curious-way-i-suspect-depends-on-being-always-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/norman-mailer-839_curious_growth-in-some-curious-way-i-suspect-dep_2562555.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/norman-mailer-839_curious_growth-in-some-curious-way-i-suspect-dep_2562555.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/norman-mailer-839_curious_growth-in-some-curious-way-i-suspect-dep_2562555.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or…” — Norman Mailer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. 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