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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

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When I think of New York, I think of all the girls … the young girls at the football games with the red cheeks and when the warm weather comes, the girls in their summer dresses.

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I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw
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Born: February 27, 1913
Died: May 16, 1984 (aged 71)
Bio: Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.
Known for:
  1. Rich Man, Poor Man (1970)
  2. The Young Lions (1948)
  3. Lucy Crown (1956)
  4. Beggarman, Thief (1978)
  5. Nightwork: A Novel (1975)

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