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Irwin Shaw

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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.


— Irwin Shaw


#hard #keep #novel #track

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.


— Irwin Shaw


#artist #doomed #example #feeling #fitzgerald

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.


— Irwin Shaw


#europe #improve #supposed #until #up

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.


— Irwin Shaw


#cord #cut #own #talk #theater

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.


— Irwin Shaw


#born #english #isaac #poland #singer

It's those damn critics again.


— Irwin Shaw


#critics #damn #those

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.


— Irwin Shaw


#got #house #i #invited #kennedy

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


— Irwin Shaw


#books #changed #find #how #out

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.


— Irwin Shaw


#john #short-story #writer

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.


— Irwin Shaw


#critics #less #me #more #more or less






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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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