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.
Source: The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian, in Village Voice, 21 Jan 1971.
-- Norman Mailer, (Jan 31 1923-2007), US novelist, journalist; He won a 1980 Pulitzer for The Executioner's Song and wrote The Naked and the Dead, 1948.