#ted

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#anything #arrive #certain #clear #death

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how

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

— Irwin Shaw

#began #characters #complicated #first #i

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

— Irwin Shaw

#curiously #full #life #states #their

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#formula #great #haven #i #more

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#care #great #just #kept #out

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. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dwindled #early #great #i #magazines

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#band #because #buy #cheaper #club

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#audience #band #cemented #felt #front

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#hear #i #life #my life #songs