All Irwin Shaw Quotes
- No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. Enjoy
- Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. Contradictory
- 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… Ability
- If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. Armed
- Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. Contact
- 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… Citizen
- The writer works in a lonely way. Inspirational
- I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. Dead
- Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Critics
- All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. All
- I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers… Casually
- Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is… Annoy
- A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. Honor
- Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. All
- Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. Acceptable
- Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing Finally
- In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75 Europe
- I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various Any
- Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life Find
- In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices Character
- Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form Begin
- My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever Cheever
- Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House Got Invited
- I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans Americans
- 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… Artistically