Top 46 Quotes by Irwin Shaw

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

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.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

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

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

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

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

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

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

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