Irwin Shaw Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  Irwin Shaw

  Sports, Football, Hurt

• 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!

  Irwin Shaw

  Life, Sports, Football

• 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

  Writing, Hands, Punishment

• 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

  Writing, Glasses, Ideas

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

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Kind

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

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Novelists, Different

• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Giving, Wife

• A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Talking, Editors

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Literature

• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Singers

• Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own

  Irwin Shaw

  Fall, Writing, People

• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  Irwin Shaw

  Sorry, Writing, Feelings

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Track, Novel

• Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Play, Literature

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