Irwin Shaw Quotes & Sayings
46 most famous Irwin Shaw quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American novelist who passed away on 16 May, 1984.
“My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.”
“A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.”
“In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.”
“A writer has to live with a sense of honor.”
“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.”
“Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.”
“I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.”
“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.”
“Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.”
“At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.”
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