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" I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? "
Irwin Shaw
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" Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House. "
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" A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. "
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" The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. "
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" 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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" People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. "
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" At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. "
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" I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young. "
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" My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have. "
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" Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. "
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" Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. "
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