Who stated this?
"The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a stance against his or her government. There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. Norman Mailer
c. Gore Vidal
d. Don DeLillo
e. Cynthia Ozick
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"The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a stance against his or her government. There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. Norman Mailer
c. Gore Vidal
d. Don DeLillo
e. Cynthia Ozick
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Norman Mailer
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born
January 31, 1923
died
November 10, 2007
gender
male
place of birth
Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States
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Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Poetry
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Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation.
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"One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that."
— Norman Mailer
— Norman Mailer
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