American - Novelist | February 27, 1913 - May 16, 1984
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Irwin Shaw
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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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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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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It's those damn critics again.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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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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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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