Quotes about Irwin Shaw

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

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It's those damn critics again.

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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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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk...

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

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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great...

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

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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of...

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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

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

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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.

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