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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

~Irwin Shaw

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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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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.

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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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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

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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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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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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 27th, 1913

Died: May 16th, 1984

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