Norman Mailer Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007
Birthday: January 31
Death: November 10
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.
topic: Writing, Character, Elude You
