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He Quotes by Irwin Shaw
- No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
- 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…
- 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…
- A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
- Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
- Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle