Books Quote by Norman Mailer Download Open image “It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.” — Norman Mailer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Idea Wife Marriage Novel Novel Latest Wife Wife Novel
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books. — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
She is a book... but don't force her to open every chapter of her book... — Ronakpanchalrr Copy Share Image
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women? — Evan Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Get a peek at what married life is like for Layken and Will in This Girl, the third book” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
