* “don’t do” in The Spooky Art by Norman Mailer

Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 9, 2007

The moment you moralize in your novel, your book is no longer moral. It has become pious, and piety corrodes morality.
Don’t go into your protagonist’s thoughts until you have something to say about his inner life that is more interesting than the reader’s suppositions

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