114 Quotes by Irwin Shaw

A lot of people have neat memories of here that add to the enjoyment of what they're coming to see,

They do an excellent job, ... They really care about it and look into it.

That, I think, is when things really took off, ... More and more people were buying the passes.

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

The writer works in a lonely way.

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!