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What are the writer’s responsibilities to his talent compared with his responsibilities to his state of well-being, his family?
SHAW
Well, a writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. If when I got out of college I had abandoned my family to starvation, which is just about where we were, I think I’d have been a much worse writer. I know that the romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. But I think that a writer is a citizen (which is one of the reasons I went into the war), that he’s a part of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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| Truman Capote, John Cheever, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, James Jones, Ezra Pound, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kurt Vonnegut, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, George Meredith, John O’Hara, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain |
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