Mailer Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the… — Maya Angelou
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they… — Mike Tyson
Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent. — Truman Capote
What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already? — Herbert Jay Stern
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend… — Matthew Barney
Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success. — Susan Sontag
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't… — Germaine Greer
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. — Ken Kesey
I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting. — Danielle Steel
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. — James Wolcott
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The… — James Wolcott
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security… — Anthony Bourdain
How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him. — Frances Fisher
I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however,… — Steven Hatfill
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. — Gloria Steinem
The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer. — Jerry Kramer
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books. — William F Buckley

Who Wrote These Mailer Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 18 Mailer Quotes as follows: