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
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
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.
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.