I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

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
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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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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.

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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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Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

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

Irwin Shaw
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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.

Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
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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, Short Stories: Five Decades
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