Irwin Shaw Quotes

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.

Irwin Shaw

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Fun
  • Blessed
  • Faces

• There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fight

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Fortune

• With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Old

• My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Change
  • Childhood
  • Lot

• That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Great
  • Long
  • Television

• My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Job
  • Acting
  • First

• My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Want
  • Value

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Literature

• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Marriage

• The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Always
  • Feelings
  • Blues

• Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Magic

• The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Family
  • May
  • Home

• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Children
  • Family
  • Future

• Being on a low-budget film is difficult enough, and you may as well be working on something that you really believe in and you really love, and for me, that's to play different characters, to play different roles, and challenge myself.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Believe
  • Different
  • May

• 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.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Family
  • May
  • Humanity