All Irwin Shaw Quotes
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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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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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
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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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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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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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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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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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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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