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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.
— Irwin Shaw
It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.
— Irwin Shaw
Our imperfections are the bonds that hold us together. We might as well recognize them.
— Irwin Shaw
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
— Irwin Shaw
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
— Irwin Shaw
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
— Irwin Shaw
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
— Irwin Shaw
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
— Irwin Shaw
The writer works in a lonely way.
— Irwin Shaw
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
— Irwin Shaw
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
— 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
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
— Irwin Shaw
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
— Irwin Shaw
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
— Irwin Shaw
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
— 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
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
— Irwin Shaw
A taste of luxury is part of the education of any intelligent human being. It teaches him how unnecessary it is.
— 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 a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
— Irwin Shaw
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
— Irwin Shaw
If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
— Irwin Shaw
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
— Irwin Shaw
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
— Irwin Shaw
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
— Irwin Shaw
