A Quote by Norman Mailer

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer
American - Novelist
January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007

The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth. The childbearing is a time of adjustments and fierce emotions. The childbearing year touches every season.

Susun Weed

I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.

Gerald Stanley Lee

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

Mary Ellen Mark

If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk turning teens off books and sending them elsewhere - to their X-Boxes, for instance. To the Internet. And they won't ever come back to books.

Matt Haig

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

Henry Handel Richardson

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

J. D. Salinger

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

Ned Vizzini

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Laura Hillenbrand

The closest I've ever come to saying "no" is "Not now, we're landing."

Sam Malone

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Randy Alcorn

Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

Suzanne Collins

Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.

Joan Raphael-Leff

Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes.

Michelle Malkin

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Laura Hillenbrand

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.