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If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.


Irwin S. Cobb

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IRWIN SHAW No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
IRWIN SHAW People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
IRWIN SHAW Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
IRWIN SHAW In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that...
IRWIN SHAW I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would ...
IRWIN SHAW If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous app...
IRWIN SHAW Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
IRWIN SHAW The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is ...
IRWIN SHAW Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
IRWIN SHAW Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictor...
IRWIN SHAW I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occur...
IRWIN SHAW I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
IRWIN SHAW At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
IRWIN SHAW A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
IRWIN SHAW An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the abil...
IRWIN SHAW