Ask Quote by Norman Mailer Download Open image “When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.” — Norman Mailer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask Book Books I write Read Which
When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I must confess to generally hating sections entitled “how to read this book” and so on. I feel that, if I bought it, I… — Paul Taylor Copy Share Image
Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony. — Laurie Halse Anderson 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
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad. — T-Pain Copy Share Image
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Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
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