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" I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. "
Irwin Shaw
Glasses
Dead
Me
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" Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. "
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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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" In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices. "
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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 am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself. "
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" I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? "
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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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" A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. "
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" I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans. "
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" The writer works in a lonely way. "
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Lonely
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" Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. "
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United
Life
" No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. "
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Need
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" I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it. "
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Wagon
Believe
" 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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Short
Early
Great
" Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. "
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American
Write
Still
" Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House. "
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White House
House
Got
" 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. "
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Giving
Style
Time
" A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. "
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Human Being
Live
Human
" In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody. "
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Hard
Track
Novel
" You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer. "
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Writer
Popularity
Expect
" 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
" It's those damn critics again. "
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Those
Critics
Damn
" I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it. "
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Anything
Show
Never
" 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. "
Irwin Shaw
Talent
Romantic
Nation
" If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. "
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Enough
Kind
You
" The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. "
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Just
Kept
Great
" My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have. "
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Attitude
Somebody
" At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. "
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Being
Height
" My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. "
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John
Writer
Short-Story