Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailerwas an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948. His best-known work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, his book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1923
CityLong Branch, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
He bears an unmistakable resemblance to a cornered rat
I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
No heart is so hard as the timid heart.
Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.
People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.
A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.