Quotes by Norman Mailer

Explore a curated collection of 25 quotes by Norman Mailer. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. — Norman Mailer
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. — Norman Mailer
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture — Norman Mailer
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man ca — Norman Mailer
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal t — Norman Mailer
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to per — Norman Mailer
You don't know a woman until you've met her in court. — Norman Mailer
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. — Norman Mailer
I don’t trust compliments. I’ve been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn’t. But generally — Norman Mailer
Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democrac — Norman Mailer
Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of characte — Norman Mailer
There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe) — Norman Mailer
With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defi — Norman Mailer
With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defi — Norman Mailer
Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. — Norman Mailer
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder. — Norman Mailer
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharge — Norman Mailer