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
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.
There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote. Small wonder, then, if people are still fascinated by him.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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.
Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.
I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.
Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.
...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.
Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.
Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.