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" Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. "
Irwin Shaw
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" 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. "
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" I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. "
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" You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer. "
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" My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. "
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" Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form. "
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" In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that. "
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" The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises. "
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" My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. "
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" 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. "
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" A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. "
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" I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young. "
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" I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal. "
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First
More
" Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. "
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Work
United
Life
" All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. "
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Same
Bad
Forget
" Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. "
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Football
Enjoy
You
" Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing. "
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You
Writing
Play
" People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. "
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Up
Dark
Down
" A writer has to live with a sense of honor. "
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Live
Writer
Honor
" I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it. "
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Show
Never
" The writer works in a lonely way. "
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Lonely
Way
" A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. "
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Human Being
Live
Human
" The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. "
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Just
Kept
Great
" I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. "
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Glasses
Dead
Me
" There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. "
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Long
Memories
Places
" 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. "
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Early
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