Norman Mailer Quotes

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.

I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.