"What a good novel that could make! About once a week Mailer bypassed wistfully around the..."

“What a good novel that could make! About once a week Mailer bypassed wistfully around the excitements of the new book which had just come into his head. He would leave it to his detractors to decide that the ones he did not write were better than the ones he did.”

- Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night (via m-l-rio)