“The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.”

—  Norman Mailer

"The Siege of Mailer : Hero to Historian" in The Village Voice (21 January 1971); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988), edited by J. Michael Lennon

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