Irwin Shaw Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Honor, Literature, Humans

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• My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

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  Story Writers, Stories, My Favorite

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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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  Character, Would Be, 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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  Literature, Care, Great Writers

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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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  Nice, Views, Literature

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• Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

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  New York, Enthusiasm, Made

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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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  Hair, Stories, Magazines

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

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  Literature, Remember, Forget

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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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  United States, Literature, Bigs

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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, Play, Literature

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

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  Thinking, Literature, Freak

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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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  Fall, Writing, People

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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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  Song, Literature, Masters

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• The writer works in a lonely way.

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  Lonely, Literature, Way

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• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

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  Writing, Track, Novel

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• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

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  Trying, Fiction, Literature

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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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  Writing, Literature, Singers

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

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  Literature, Height, Periods

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• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

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  Men, White, House

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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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  Fate, Artist, America

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

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  Europe, Literature, Comeback

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• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

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  Rap, Literature, Popularity

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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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  Attitude, Book, Literature

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

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  Literature, Fierce, Critics

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