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
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
Culture is worth a little risk,
In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.
Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.
In my day the library was a wonderful place... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.
I've had an exciting relation to France all my life, from my young years in Brooklyn when I thought that Paris was the place to be.
When considering regulations, half of what is published is probably 50 % incorrect. The rest is 75 % wrong.
Is there meat in these? I'm a vegetarian.
You never really know a woman until you meet her in court
There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote. Small wonder, then, if people are still fascinated by him.
It is the actions of men and not their sentiments that make history. Our sentiments can be loaded with love within, but our actions can turn into the opposite. Perversity is always ready to consort with human nature.
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.