Author: Irwin Shaw

Quotes

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 almost nothing.

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 almost nothing.

- Irwin Shaw

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

- Irwin Shaw

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

- Irwin Shaw

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

- Irwin Shaw

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

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

- Irwin Shaw

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