{"author":"Norman Mailer","author_id":"Norman+Mailer","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["excuse","hatred"],"id":4519,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"I heard from clear across the city, over the Hudson in the Jersey yards, one fierce whistle of a locomotive which took me to a train late at night hurling through the middle of the West, its iron shriek blighting the darkness. One hundred years before, some first trains had torn through the prairie and their warning had congealed the nerve. 'Beware,' said the sound. 'Freeze in your route. Behind this machine comes a century of maniacs and a heat which looks to consume the earth.' What a rustling those first animals must have known.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["fiction","mailer","norman-mailer","quote"],"id":7544,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["criticism","insults"],"id":16905,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["fear"],"id":40762,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["writers","writing"],"id":51663,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-the-press","lies","lying","news","the-news","truth"],"id":57338,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["loathesome","self-deprecation","self-esteem"],"id":66665,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"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 perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["journalism","writing"],"id":92517,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"Boredom slays more of existence than war.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["boring","days"],"id":108153,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["writers","writing"],"id":115541,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}