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“Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers’ lives.”
― Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“Having reshaped my words with an intensity of feeling I had not known before, I could not understand why others were not overcome with my sense of life, of sex, and of sadness.”
― Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“You can’t change a single word. What is tensile strength? It is that all the components are working together. I repeat: You can’t change a single word. The best short stories are built on this premise.”
― Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.”
― Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing