114 Quotes by Irwin Shaw

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

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

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

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.

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.

What do I care for the colored pins on a General's map? It's not a fair bargain--this exchange of my life for a small part of a colored pin

You go to the multiplex and you don't see anyone you know, ... invariably you see someone you know. It's like old home week.

The theater went from just weekend shows to Wednesday and Thursday also,