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You Quotes by Irwin Shaw
- Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
- Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
- You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer
- If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
- A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
- 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 last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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