Irwin Shaw Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw Famous Quotes & Sayings
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
Hazen had already begun to mix her a martini. She watched approvingly. "Martinis make everything worthwhile, don't they?" she said, smiling at Strand.
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.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
A taste of luxury is part of the education of any intelligent human being. It teaches him how unnecessary it is.