A writer's quote from Norman Mailer

"The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink....His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavour and one's passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste."

Norman Mailer (31/1/1923-10/11/2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright and screenwriter.