Norman Mailer Quotes

14 quotes by 12 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 Norman Mailer Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 14 Norman Mailer Quotes as follows:

• 2 Norman Mailer Quotes by Susan Sontag
• 2 Norman Mailer Quotes by James Wolcott
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Gloria Steinem
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Jerry Kramer
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by William F Buckley
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Maya Angelou
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Truman Capote
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Germaine Greer
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Ken Kesey
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Danielle Steel
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Anthony Bourdain
• 1 Norman Mailer Quote by Frances Fisher