{"author":"Irwin Shaw","author_id":"Irwin+Shaw","total_quotes":9,"quotes":[{"text":"Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["literary-criticism","new-york-city"],"id":56302,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"},{"text":"No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["writing-life"],"id":70706,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"},{"text":"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 whether it's something special with me or whether every man in the city walks around with the same feeling inside him, but I feel as though I'm at a picnic in this city. I like to sit near the women in the theaters, the famous beauties who've taken six hours to get ready and look it. And the young girls at the football games, with the red cheeks, and when the warm weather comes, the girls in their summer dresses . . .","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["dresses","girls","male-female-relationships","manhattan","marriage","new-york-city","summer"],"id":190094,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"},{"text":"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.","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["everything","flowers","god","men","movies","observation","subway","the-universe","women"],"id":232083,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"},{"text":"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["drinking","irwin-shaw","paris-review-interview","sober","writing"],"id":299944,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"},{"text":"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.","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["family","humanity","talent "],"id":306507,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"},{"text":"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.","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["marriage","women"],"id":337441,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"},{"text":"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["humor","writing"],"id":340628,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"},{"text":"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.","author":"Irwin Shaw","tags":["find","changed","somebody "],"id":398608,"author_id":"Irwin+Shaw"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}