Irwin Shaw Quotes
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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