Irwin Shaw Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Fierce, Critics

• If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Kind

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  Irwin Shaw

  Fate, Artist, America

• I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

  Irwin Shaw

  Song, Literature, Masters

• Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Novelists, Different

• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Care, Great Writers

• 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.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Giving, Wife

• Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Surprise, Judgment

• At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Height, Periods

• I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

  Irwin Shaw

  Believe, Gone, Literature

• A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Talking, Editors

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Remember, Forget

• I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

  Irwin Shaw

  Thinking, Literature, Freak

• 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.

  Irwin Shaw

  Memories, Book, Long

  Herbert Kline, Irwin Shaw (1985). “New theatre and film, 1934 to 1937: an anthology”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  Irwin Shaw

  Honor, Literature, Humans

• I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

  Irwin Shaw

  Character, Would Be, Literature

• Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

  Irwin Shaw

  United States, Literature, Bigs

• My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

  Irwin Shaw

  Nice, Views, Literature

• Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Play, Literature

• I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Shows, Finished

• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Singers

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

  Irwin Shaw

  Europe, Literature, Comeback

• My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

  Irwin Shaw

  Attitude, Book, Literature

• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  Irwin Shaw

  Sorry, Writing, Feelings

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Literature

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