Irwin Shaw Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“The writer works in a lonely way.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”