American - Novelist | February 27, 1913 - May 16, 1984
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Irwin Shaw
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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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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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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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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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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
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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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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
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