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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.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Irwin Shaw

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

Irwin Shaw

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Irwin Shaw

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Irwin Shaw

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

Irwin Shaw

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.

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

Irwin Shaw

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Irwin Shaw

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Irwin Shaw

It's those damn critics again.

Irwin Shaw

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

The writer works in a lonely way.

Irwin Shaw

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Irwin Shaw

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Irwin Shaw

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

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.

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Irwin Shaw

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.

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

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.

Irwin Shaw

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

Irwin Shaw

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Irwin Shaw

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Irwin Shaw

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

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

Irwin Shaw

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.

Irwin Shaw

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

Irwin Shaw