Quotes By Irwin Shaw
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
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
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
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Irwin Shaw
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
Irwin Shaw