Top 46 Quotes by Irwin Shaw

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

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

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

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.

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

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

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

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

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

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.