If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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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.Irwin Shaw
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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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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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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