Creative Quotations from . . .
Norman Mailer
(1923-2007) born on Jan 31
US "novelist, journalist". "He won a 1980 Pulitzer for "The Executioner's Song" and wrote "The Naked and the Dead," 1948."
 
   
F
When considering regulations, half of what is published is probably 50 % incorrect. The rest is 75 % wrong."

R
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
A
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.
N
"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
K
"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: ""The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian," in "Village Voice," 21 Jan 1971."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: ""The Presidential Papers," Preface, 1963."



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