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Irwin Shaw

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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.


— Irwin Shaw


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


— Irwin Shaw


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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.


— Irwin Shaw


#chance #expensive #fortune #getting #giving

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.


— Irwin Shaw


#get #no reason #paid #play #playing

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.


— Irwin Shaw


#i #young

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


— Irwin Shaw


#going #judgments #lot #makes #posterity

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


— Irwin Shaw


#enjoy #football #get #hurt #like






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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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