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Irwin Shaw Quotes
A good editor understands what youre talking and writing about and doesnt meddle too much. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
A writer has to live with a sense of honor. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
An absolutely necessary part of a writers 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. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and thats all. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
I cringe when critics say Im a master of the popular novel. Whats an unpopular novel? - Irwin Shaw Quotes
I dont think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
I havent stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
I never drink while Im working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
I never show anything to anybody until Ive finished it. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Im not as hopeful as I was when I was young. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Ive gone on the wagon, but my body doesnt believe it. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
If youre young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until hes about 75. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
In a novel, its hard to keep track of everybody. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesnt write in English. Still, hes an American. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Its those damn critics again. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
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