"Writing books is the closest men ever come…" — Norman Mailer

"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."

— Norman Mailer

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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the…
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative…
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do…
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary…
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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