114 Quotes by Irwin Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life