Irwin Shaw Quotes About Literature
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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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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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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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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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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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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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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There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
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Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal
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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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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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