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
There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.
Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
The way you write affects what you say.
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.