“ I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. Irwin Shaw
“ My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have. Irwin Shaw
“ 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
“ No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it. Irwin Shaw
“ 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. Irwin Shaw
“ I'm older now, I'm a man getting near middle age, putting on a little fat and I still love to walk along Fifth Avenue at three o'clock on the east side of the street between Fiftieth and Fifty-seventh… Irwin Shaw
“ When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish, Polack, Chinese, German, Negro, Spanish, Russian girls, all on parade in the city. I don't know… Irwin Shaw
“ Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap. Irwin Shaw
