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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. "

Living , Time , Giving , Wife , Fortune , Chance

related quotes

" I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? "

Popular

" If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. "

Time

" I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written. "

Time

" I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it. "

Ideas

" I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. "

Ideas

" I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal. "

First

" I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. "

Writers , Formula

" I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself. "

Writers , Formula

" Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. "

Purpose

" 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 world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. "

Ability , World , Talent , Writer , Punishment

" All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. "

Writers , Forget

" A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. "

Honor , Sense , Writer

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