American Novelist

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or novelist:

    Alex Sebastian: Mother, mother.
    Mrs. Sebastian: Why are you up so early?
    Alex: I need your help.
    Mrs. Sebastian: Something is wrong?
    Alex: A great deal.... I am married to an American agent.
    Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)