Norman Mailer Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Writing, Men

  1965 'Mr Mailer Interviews Himself', in the NewYork Times Book Review,17 Sep.

• Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Littles

• I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Writing, Married

• While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

  Norman Mailer

  New York, Book, Long

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

  Norman Mailer

  Baby, Children, Book

  1971 'The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian', in Village Voice, 21 Jan.

• It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

  Norman Mailer

  Falling In Love, Book, Love You

• When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Writing, Literature

  The New York Times, June 8, 1984.

• Culture is worth a little risk.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Risk, Culture

  "The Poetic License to Kill" by Lance Morrow, in TIME magazine, content.time.com. February 1, 1982.

• A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Novelists, Genius

• I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Ordinary, Photograph

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