My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me Irwin Shaw More Quotes by Irwin Shaw More Quotes From Irwin Shaw My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever Irwin Shaw story-writersmy-favoritestories 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 magazinesstorieshair Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life Irwin Shaw finding-yourselfliteraturewriting I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans Irwin Shaw freakliteraturethinking Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven. Irwin Shaw hammerssoldiersight Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing Irwin Shaw literatureplaywriting Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own Irwin Shaw writingpeoplefall I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe. Irwin Shaw flowereyemoving All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. Irwin Shaw literatureforgetremember 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 wifewritinggiving I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself. Irwin Shaw fiercecriticsliterature Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. Irwin Shaw singersliteraturewriting If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. Irwin Shaw kindliteraturewriting In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that. Irwin Shaw fateartistamerica At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. Irwin Shaw heightperiodsliterature Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House Irwin Shaw whitehousemen I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? Irwin Shaw mastersliteraturesong Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. Irwin Shaw united-statesbigsliterature Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form Irwin Shaw literaturetryingfiction The writer works in a lonely way. Irwin Shaw lonelyliteratureway
