Quotes about Irwin Shaw

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

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

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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that...

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The writer works in a lonely way.

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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I...

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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always...

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

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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly...

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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store...

#Irwin Shaw