I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Irwin Shaw

Mots clés humor writing

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

Irwin Shaw

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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.

Irwin Shaw

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Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.

Irwin Shaw

Mots clés women marriage

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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough

Irwin Shaw

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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Irwin Shaw

Mots clés writing drinking paris-review-interview sober irwin-shaw

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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

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Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Irwin Shaw

Mots clés literary-criticism new-york-city

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ما قيمة هذه الدنيا التي تتعلقون بها ؟ ..

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This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon the house of the human being. I don’t know what you saw in Africa and Italy, but I know what I saw in Russia and Poland. We made a cemetery a thousand miles long and a thousand miles wide. Men, women, children, Poles, Russians, Jews, it made no difference. It could not be compared to any human action. It could be compared to a weasel in a henhouse. It was as though we felt that if we left anything alive in the East, it would one day bear witness against us and condemn us. And, now, we have made the final mistake. We are losing the war

Irwin Shaw

Mots clés wwii warfare

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