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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

~Irwin Shaw

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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.

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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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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

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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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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

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It's those damn critics again.

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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 27th, 1913

Died: May 16th, 1984

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