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
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
I guess all that's left is to love the fire.
When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.
The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.
...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.
I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.
The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.