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 good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
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
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.
The theater went from just weekend shows to Wednesday and Thursday also,
You go to the multiplex and you don't see anyone you know, ... invariably you see someone you know. It's like old home week.
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.