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Irwin Shaw

"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."

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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."

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"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."

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"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."
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"Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American."
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"Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all."
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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."
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"A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much."
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