More - Norman Mailer Quotes

The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude

Norman Mailer

 

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Norman Mailer

 American Novelist

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer

 American Novelist Law

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

 American Novelist Television

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Norman Mailer

 American Novelist

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation

Norman Mailer

 

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

Norman Mailer

 

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Norman Mailer

 American Novelist

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.

Norman Mailer

 

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Norman Mailer

 American Novelist Cats