Norman Mailer Quotes

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creati...

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not d...

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small ...

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than...

I don’t trust compliments. I’ve been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I d...

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, h...

I heard from clear across the city, over the Hudson in the Jersey yards, one fierce whistle of a loc...

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand d...

I won't stay inwith married menany moresaid the wise girlthey're too agreeable,it's a little too muc...

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the...

Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.

rip the prisonsopenput theconvictsontelevision

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corrupt...

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteles...

I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a ba...

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the w...

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.

It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions ...

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-o...

About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letter...

Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small t...

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his visio...

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and ...

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected ...

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (...