Top 46 Quotes by Irwin Shaw

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.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

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