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" Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. "
Irwin Shaw
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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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" Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. "
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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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" 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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" People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. "
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