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" Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House. "
Irwin Shaw
White House
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" I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it. "
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" Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form. "
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" I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans. "
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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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" 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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" I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written. "
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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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" My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have. "
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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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" Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. "
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" My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. "
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" The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. "
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" You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer. "
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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
" Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. "
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" Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. "
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Still
" Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. "
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" At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. "
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" It's those damn critics again. "
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Than
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" In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody. "
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Hard
Track
Novel
" My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. "
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Critics
Nice
" 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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Hands
Stand
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