"You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like……" — Irwin Shaw

"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 time to take the chance to write what you wish."

— Irwin Shaw

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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under…
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a…
The writer works in a lonely way.
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to…
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving…
Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental…

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