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Author - Irwin Shaw
Quotes by : Irwin Shaw
new york city
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
Humanity
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a....
everything
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving....
dresses
I'm older now, I'm a man getting near middle age, putting on a little fat and I still love to walk along....
humor
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
marriage
Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of....
writing life
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid....
Changed
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
sober
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to....
summer
When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish,....
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