Irwin Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
-
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
-
I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
-
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
-
I am not an autobiographical writer.
-
John Boehner is a friend.
-
'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
-
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
-
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
-
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
-
One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
-
John Hughes loved improvisers.
-
My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
-
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
-
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
-
I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.
-
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
-
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
-
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
-
As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
-
Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
-
In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
-
I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
-
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
