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Irwin Shaw Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated Apr 2024
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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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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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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 writer works in a lonely way.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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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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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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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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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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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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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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It's those damn critics again.
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