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Short Quotes by Irwin Shaw
- Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
- My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
- If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
- 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…
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