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
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
It all comes down to who does the dishes.
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.