Irwin Shaw Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”