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
Norman Mailer quotes about
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.
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul
There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote. Small wonder, then, if people are still fascinated by him.
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.
Is there meat in these? I'm a vegetarian.
The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.