Top 46 Quotes by Irwin Shaw

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

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.

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

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

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

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

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

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

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