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Writing Quotes - Page 824

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

Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

"Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.12, Henry Holt and Company