Irwin Shaw

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.