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Irwin Shaw

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

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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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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"My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever."
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