Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.Irwin Shaw
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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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
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The theater went from just weekend shows to Wednesday and Thursday also,
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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.
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
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