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Irwin Shaw

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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?


— Irwin Shaw


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


— Irwin Shaw


#new-york-city #literary-criticism

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.


— Irwin Shaw


#flowers #god #men #movies #observation

Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.


— Irwin Shaw


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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.


— Irwin Shaw


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


— Irwin Shaw


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


— Irwin Shaw


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


— Irwin Shaw


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


— Irwin Shaw


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His last two novels were Bread Upon the Waters (1981) and Acceptable Losses (1982). In 1950 Shaw wrote a book on Israel with photos by Robert Capa named Report on Israel. Novels
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Though Shaw's work received widespread critical acclaim the success of his commercial fiction ultimately diminiIrwin Shawd his literary reputation. Irwin Shaw (February 27 1913 – May 16 1984) was a prolific American playwright screenwriter novelist and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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