Quotes by Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw

A good editor understands what you’re talking and writing about and doesn’t meddle too much.

Editors

Talking

Writing

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

Honor

Humans

Literature

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

Forget

Literature

Remember

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.

Hands

Punishment

Writing

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

Height

Literature

Periods

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Enthusiasm

Made

New York

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that’s all.

Bigs

Literature

United States

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Figure Skating

Figures

Sissy

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

Different

Novelists

Writing

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well…. Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

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Sight

Soldier

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Quotes by Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw

A good editor understands what you’re talking and writing about and doesn’t meddle too much.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

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

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.

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that’s all.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

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

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