Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shawwas a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions, about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man, about the fate of three siblings after World War II, that was made into a popular miniseries starring...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth27 February 1913
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
The writer works in a lonely way.
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.
Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal