Norman Mailer Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

  Norman Mailer

  Art, Real, Writing

• 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.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Character, Elude You

• A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

  Norman Mailer

  Character, Men, Style

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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