Irwin Shaw quotes - page 2

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written. (Irwin Shaw)

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

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

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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

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

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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. (Irwin Shaw)

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

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

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

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If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

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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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It's those damn critics again.

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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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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. (Irwin Shaw)

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

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Irwin Shaw

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Occupation: American Playwright
Born: February 27, 1913
Died: May 16, 1984
Quotes count: 47
Wikipedia: Irwin Shaw

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