All Irwin Shaw Quotes
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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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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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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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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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.
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